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
past long benefits
One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past ...
disease violence novelists
Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation, are carriers of a singularly unpleasant disease.
ideas world defeated
Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.
lying men poison
Truth is the only good and the purest pity. ... Men lie for profit or for pity. All lies turn to poison, but a lie that is told for pity or shame breeds such a host of ills that no power on earth can compass their redemption.
self smell comic
From so much of this seriously-intended pornography there rises, even when it is lewdly or boisterously comic, the acrid smell, unmistakable, of self-dislike.
trying stronger four
Inevitably, the flood of literary pornography loosed on us is dulling our reactions of surprise or shock. Its writers are forced to raise the ante, to provide stronger and stronger stimulants. Or try to provide them, since both the manner, the naming of parts and the few inexpressive four-letter words, and the matter, are narrowly limited.
lying optimistic phrases
A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.
lying thinking mind
I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one below the other in my mind ...
exercise lust showing-up
Pornography is essentially reductive, an exercise in the nothing-but mode, a depersonalizing of the human beings involved, a showing-up of human lust as nothing but an affair of the genitals.
degrees sadistic pornography
All pornography is to a degree sadistic - inevitably.
sex squirrels serious
the sex even in serious pornography has less singularity than the mating of squirrels.
running betrayed illness
each time that I have run away - and from a habit it quickly became an illness - I have betrayed someone. Myself, but not always only myself.
vanity self self-justification
There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.
satisfaction misery unhappiness
There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.