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Famous Storm Jameson Quotes
“I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.”
“If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.”
“Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.”
“The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.”
“Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.”
“You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.”
“Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.”
“A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.”
“invaders always destroy libraries.”
“Any marriage worth the name is no better than a series of beginnings - many of them abortive.”
“Perhaps this is in the end what most marriages are - gentleness, memory, and habit.”
“If the novel is dying, I see no chance that dismembering it will revive it.”
“All pornography is to a degree sadistic - inevitably.”
“the sex even in serious pornography has less singularity than the mating of squirrels.”
“When you talk of revolution ... you never talk of the day after.”
“There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.”
“Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.”
“There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.”
“Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.”