Storm Jameson Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.”
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“There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute.”
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“Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.”
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“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.”
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“There is only one world; the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive; this minute here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.”
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“Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an hour living in the past, with regret for lost joys or shame for things badly done (both utterly useless and weakening) or in a future which we either long for or dread. . . . There is only one minute in which you are alive, this minute, here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. Which is exactly what it is-a miracle and unrepeatable.”
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“She did not so much cook as assassinate food.”
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“For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.”
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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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“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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“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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“... the stomach is near the heart and one appetite pricks on another.”
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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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“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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“Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.”
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“War, for any cause, is inexcusable. There is nothing which excuses us for the beastly ingenuity of our wars. Only fools, only the diseased, think that we are served by killing the strong young men with machines.”
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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?”
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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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“Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.”
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“There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.”
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“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.”
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“My mind is not suited to go much into company.”
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“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.”
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“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 ...”
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“In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma.”
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“Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation, are carriers of a singularly unpleasant disease.”
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“One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past ...”
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“Failures to love are irremediable and irredeemable.”
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