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Pornography is essentially reductive, an exercise in the nothing-but mode, a depersonalizing of the human beings involved, a showing-up of human lust as nothing but an affair of the genitals.
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In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase.
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There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.
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Inevitably, the flood of literary pornography loosed on us is dulling our reactions of surprise or shock. Its writers are forced to raise the ante, to provide stronger and stronger stimulants. Or try to provide them, since both the manner, the naming of parts and the few inexpressive four-letter words, and the matter, are narrowly limited.
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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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Vitality... that dangerous divine gift she had in such abundance, the one gift that no art could counterfeit, and the one the gods give least often and with least wish to be kind.
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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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We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves of the torrent of information and entertainment pouring from ever-open electronic jaws. It could end by stupefying us.
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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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The sex even in serious pornography has less singularity than the mating of squirrels.
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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.
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'I knew you wouldn't mind' is the formula with which my friends begin the confession that they have made use of me in some indefensible way, or written a brutal criticism of my new novel.
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Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.
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Jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.
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Like many quite good medical men he regarded women as mentally deficient and physiologically malformed.
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The older I grow the more sharply I mistrust words. So few of them have any meaning left. It is impossible to write one sentence in which every word has the bareness and hardness of bones, the reality of the skeleton.
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The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.
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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.
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Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.
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She disappeared silently — like a cat slipping out of the larder.
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Her poverty was a hard ulcer in her, and it took all her strength.
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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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Fear is the deep motive of abstract art — fear of a repellent civilization which is dominated by the power of things.... who can be surprised if, more sensitive than the others, the artist is terrified by the power things have acquired over us?
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From so much of this seriously-intended pornography there rises, even when it is lewdly or boisterously comic, the acrid smell, unmistakable, of self-dislike.
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The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.
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Storm Jameson
Born:
January 8, 1891
Died:
September 30, 1986
(aged 95)
Bio:
Margaret Storm Jameson was an English journalist and author, known for her novels and reviews.
Known for:
Journey from the north (1969)
Company parade (1934)
Cloudless May (1943)
A cup of tea for Mr Thorgill (1957)
A day off (1933)
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