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

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Book:Women against men

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Women against men

This book delves into the complexities of gender dynamics, featuring a variety of voices that discuss the challenges and experiences faced by women in various contexts. It examines the historical, social, and cultural factors contributing to the power imbalances between genders and offers insights into the ongoing struggle for equality. more

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Storm Jameson was an outstanding journalist, born on January 8, 1891, and passed away on September 30, 1986. Her career was marked by passion for the news industry and a deep concern for social issues. more

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“a writer's first duty is to be clear. Clarity is an excellent virtue. Like all virtues it can be pursued at ruinous cost. Paid, so far as I am concerned, joyfully.”

Firsts Virtue Clear Duty Cost Concerned Paid Clarity Excellent Pursued

Book:Parthian Words

Source: Parthian Words

“An intelligent man or woman willing to make a career of reviewing fiction is hard to come by ... And the temporaries do the work cheaply. Moreover, continuity may be got at the expense of intellectual arthritis; a reviewer who has been at his grisly task for half a lifetime may stiffen into prejudices of every sort, and become too anchylosed to do better than turn his back to a new wave when it rushes down on him.”

Men May Has Beens Hard Turns Half Fiction Careers Willing Intellectual Tasks Prejudice Intelligent Lifetime Critics Wave Expenses Continuity Reviewers Intelligent Man Arthritis

Author:Storm Jameson

“The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.”

Law Literature Critics Servant Giver Irrepressible Hankering

Book:Parthian Words

Source: Parthian Words

“Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.”

Humans Literature Cruelty Torture Sadistic Inhumane Human Cruelty

Book:Parthian Words

Source: Parthian Words

“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?”

Knows Humans Matter Dies Human Beings Moved Cruelty Nerves Before I Die

Author:Storm Jameson

“You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.”

Want Desire Rage Arguing Useless

Author:Storm Jameson

“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.”

Stills Moments Novelists Publishers Unworthy

Book:Journey from the North, Volume 1: Autobiography of Storm Jameson

Source: Journey from the North, Volume 1: Autobiography of Storm Jameson

“Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.”

Heart Long Has Beens Fiction Long Time Critics Amusing Heart Failure

Book:Parthian Words

Source: Parthian Words

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

Next Generations Movement Gestures Only Time

Book:The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell

Source: The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell

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

World Whole Nations Succeed Creating Whole World Nationalism Provinces Venom

Author:Storm Jameson