Quotes from Storm Jameson

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.

There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute.

Language is memory and metaphor.

If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

I believe that only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees.

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.

Any marriage worth the name is no better than a series of beginnings - many of them abortive.

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

Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

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

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.