Storm Jameson
Storm Jameson
Margaret Storm Jamesonwas an English journalist and author, known for her novels and reviews...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth8 January 1891
names series
Any marriage worth the name is no better than a series of beginnings - many of them abortive.
gestures next generations
The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.
heart long fiction
Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.
creating world succeed
Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.
jobs motherhood careers
giving the utmost of herself to three absorbing interests [marriage, motherhood, career] ... was a problem for a superwoman, and a job for a superwoman, and only some such fabled being could have accomplished it with success.
heart brain sometimes
Very rare, the intelligence of the heart. The intelligence of the whimsical brain is less rare, less attaching, sometimes tedious.
men redemption goes-on
The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving to go on living than a craving for redemption. Oh, and a protest against absurdity.
sorrow lasts impermanence
Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.
insomnia impossible moments
The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.
revolution
When you talk of revolution ... you never talk of the day after.
dying chance novel
If the novel is dying, I see no chance that dismembering it will revive it.
novelists moments stills
The writer - more especially the novelist - who has not, at one moment or another, considered his publisher unworthy of him, has still to be conceived.
nerves matter cruelty
What I do not know and cannot even hope to understand before I die is why human beings are willfully, coldly, matter-of-factly cruel to each other ... What nerve has atrophied in the torturer, or worse is sensually moved?
loyalty law space
Mere human beings cant afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.