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“I am persuaded that not a novel in ten thousand is of any use to a child to fit him for life. The most are of use only to unfit him -- to blunt his senses and infect him with the writers' poor silly sentiments. Nine out of ten novelists deserve to be prosecuted under an Adulterated Emotions Act.”

Quote by Storm Jameson

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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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“In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in the loss of social and economic privilege, alarms so deeply that they are incapable of unprejudiced thought. They seem to themselves to be thinking, with lucidity and fairness, but since they start from the conviction that change must undoubtedly be for the worse or from settled grief at the thought of losing what is old and lovely, they are doing no more than following a logical sequence of ideas from a false premise.”

Thinking Persons Ideas Seems Social Loss Grief Economic Losing Threat Privilege Following Conviction Lovely Logical Fairness Incapable Sequence Premises Alarms Lucidity

Author:Storm Jameson

“My mind is not suited to go much into company.”

Book:Company parade

Source: Company parade

“Writers sometimes talk as though they were the only friends of civilization. This is their conceit. But they have special powers to serve -- or to corrupt -- civilization, and are obliged to use them.”

Sometimes Use Special Civilization Obliged Conceit

Book:The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell

Source: The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell

“A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas - on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor - unless he means something else, quite different - is a rogue.”

Mean Different Body Nations Honor Statesmen Rogues Fleas

Author: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.”

Ifs Moments Able Past Certain Rounds Seeds Live In The Present

Book:The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell

Source: The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell

“The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.”

Life Is Cruelty Gentle

Book:The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell

Source: The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell

“An animal is not cruel; it lives wholly in the instant leap on its prey, in the present taste of marrow or blood. Cruelty begins with the memory, and the pleasures of the memory are impure; they draw their strength along levels where no sun has reached.”

Memories Pleasure Animal Levels Sun Blood Taste Draws Cruelty Instant Leap Prey Marrow

Book:The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell

Source: The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell

“In Europe, war is a disease which has been in the family for generations: no one is surprised when it makes another leap. Even the patient only attends to it with part of his mind.”

Mind Has Beens War Generations Disease Europe Patient Leap

Author:Storm Jameson

“No one asks public men to be strictly moral, but they must seem to be well-behaved.”

Men Wells Seems Asks Moral

Book:The Early Life of Stephen Hind

Source: The Early Life of Stephen Hind

“If you think with enough energy about a hoped-for event, it will in the end happen. Not because you willed it. Because it was all the time in your nature.”

Ifs Thinking Ends Enough Happens Energy Events

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

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