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“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?”

Quote by Storm Jameson

Book:The Intruder

Work

In this gripping psychological thriller, a mysterious figure arrives at the doorstep of a seemingly ordinary family, setting off a chain of events that challenge the very fabric of their lives. The story explores themes of trust, identity, and the blurred lines between reality and illusion, keeping readers on the edge of their seats as they unravel the truth behind the intruder's presence. more

Author

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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Book:Company parade

Source: Company parade

“Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.”

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Book:Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson

Source: Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson

“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.”

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

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Book:No time like the present

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“Truth is the only good and the purest pity. ... Men lie for profit or for pity. All lies turn to poison, but a lie that is told for pity or shame breeds such a host of ills that no power on earth can compass their redemption.”

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Book:The Clash

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

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Book:Three kingdoms

Source: Three kingdoms

“... the stomach is near the heart and one appetite pricks on another.”

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Author:Storm Jameson

“... we do not remember people as they were. What we remember is the effect they had on us then, but we remember it through an emotion charged with all that has since happened to us.”

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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.”

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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.”

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