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Any marriage worth the name is no better than a series of beginnings - many of them abortive. — Storm Jameson

Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world. — Storm Jameson

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear. — Storm Jameson

The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions. — Storm Jameson

All pornography is to a degree sadistic - inevitably. — Storm Jameson

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? — Storm Jameson

Hope is a talent like any other. — Storm Jameson

The stomach is near the heart and one appetite pricks on another. — Storm Jameson

Very rare, the intelligence of the heart. The intelligence of the whimsical brain is less rare, less attaching, sometimes tedious. — Storm Jameson

The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle. — Storm Jameson

The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present. — Storm Jameson

No one asks public men to be strictly moral, but they must seem to be well-behaved. — Storm Jameson

Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity. — Storm Jameson

Jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first. — Storm Jameson

Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure. — Storm Jameson

Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses ... — Storm Jameson

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable. — Storm Jameson

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless. — Storm Jameson

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. — Storm Jameson

Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back. — Storm Jameson

The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself. — Storm Jameson

Language is memory and metaphor. — Storm Jameson

Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions. — Storm Jameson

A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself. — Storm Jameson

If the novel is dying, I see no chance that dismembering it will revive it. — Storm Jameson

The sex even in serious pornography has less singularity than the mating of squirrels. — Storm Jameson

There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it. — Storm Jameson

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna. — Storm Jameson

The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it. — Storm Jameson

A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees. — Storm Jameson

The truth is exactly that which can't be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we are inferior, much. — Storm Jameson

There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification. — Storm Jameson

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. — Storm Jameson

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human. — Storm Jameson

My mind is not suited to go much into company. — Storm Jameson

In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma. — Storm Jameson

Happiness comes from the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. — Storm Jameson

If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises. — Storm Jameson

Perhaps this is in the end what most marriages are - gentleness, memory, and habit. — Storm Jameson

The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible. — Storm Jameson

Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces. — Storm Jameson

I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible. — Storm Jameson

Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow. — Storm Jameson

Invaders always destroy libraries. — Storm Jameson

I used words without precautions. I wanted to disappear into them, I fled into the bovaryism of the writer trying to create an effect. — Storm Jameson

There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute. — Storm Jameson

When you talk of revolution ... you never talk of the day after. — Storm Jameson

She did not so much cook as assassinate food. — Storm Jameson

In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase. — Storm Jameson

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received. — Storm Jameson

A joke is a joke or the image of a truth ... — Storm Jameson

Failures to love are irremediable and irredeemable. — Storm Jameson

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 ... — Storm Jameson

Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic? — Storm Jameson