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
brother stupid men
The least stupid question a man asks in his lifetime is not: Is there a God and is He a god or a devil? But: Brother, why are you killing me?
strong war men
War, for any cause, is inexcusable. There is nothing which excuses us for the beastly ingenuity of our wars. Only fools, only the diseased, think that we are served by killing the strong young men with machines.
writing ambition chimneys
Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.
lying writing people
all writers who can claim to be called 'living' must be political in a sense. They must have what the Quakers call a concern to understand what is happening in the world, and must engage themselves, in their writing, to promote no comfortable lies, of the sort which people will pay well to be told rather than the truth ...
stuff youth vulnerable
The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.
unique men animal
Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.
cities invisible ifs
I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.
compromise planets misandry
If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.
memories language metaphor
Language is memory and metaphor.
cooking cooks
She did not so much cook as assassinate food.
life world minutes
There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute.
thanksgiving religion thankfulness
For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.
hope talent
Hope is a talent like any other.
memories habit ends
Perhaps this is in the end what most marriages are - gentleness, memory, and habit.