Storm Jameson Quotes

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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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  Regret, Past, Long

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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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  Life, Miracle, Way To Live

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Storm Jameson (1941). “The End of this War”

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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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  Spiritual, Miracle, Way To Live

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• When you talk of revolution ... you never talk of the day after.

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  Revolution

  Storm Jameson (1922). “The Clash”

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• There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.

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  Vanity, Self, Self Justification

  Storm Jameson (2011). “The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell”, p.22, A&C Black

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

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  Life Is, Cruelty, Gentle

  Storm Jameson (2011). “The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell”, p.39, A&C Black

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• Hope is a talent like any other.

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  Hope, Hopeful, Talent

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.364, A&C Black

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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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  Satisfaction, Misery, Unhappiness

  Storm Jameson (1932). “That was yesterday”

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• Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

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  Live In The Present, Tricks, Really Living

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• Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

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  Lasts, Emotion, Surprise

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.408, A&C Black

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

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  Desire, Useless, Want

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• Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.

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  Creating, World, Succeed

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• I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.

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  Cities, Invisible, Ifs

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 1: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.98, A&C Black

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• What I do not know and cannot even hope to understand before I die is why human beings are willfully, coldly, matter-of-factly cruel to each other ... What nerve has atrophied in the torturer, or worse is sensually moved?

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  Nerves, Matter, Cruelty

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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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  Thanksgiving, Religion, Thankfulness

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• Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.

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  Writing, Ambition, Chimneys

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.398, A&C Black

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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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  Strong, War, Men

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Company Parade”, p.230, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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  Stuff, Youth, Vulnerable

  Storm Jameson (1933). “No time like the present”

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• A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.

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  Lying, Optimistic, Noble

  Storm Jameson (1966). “The Early Life of Stephen Hind”

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• Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.

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  Speak The Truth, Draws, Exhilarating

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Company Parade”, p.92, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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  Home, Europe, Cities

  Storm Jameson (1933). “Women against men”

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• Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.

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  Animal, Unique, Men

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• Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.

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  Sorrow, Lasts, Impermanence

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Company Parade”, p.223, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.

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  Past, Able, Moments

  Storm Jameson (2011). “The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell”, p.128, A&C Black

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