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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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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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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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Language is memory and metaphor.

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Memories, Language, Metaphor

Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.5, A&C Black

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.

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Insomnia, Impossible, Moments

Storm Jameson (1926). “Three kingdoms”

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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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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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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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An animal is not cruel; it lives wholly in the instant leap on its prey, in the present taste of marrow or blood. Cruelty begins with the memory, and the pleasures of the memory are impure; they draw their strength along levels where no sun has reached.

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Memories, Animal, Blood

Storm Jameson (2011). “The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell”, p.50, A&C Black

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Failures to love are irremediable and irredeemable.

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

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to grow old is to have taken away, one by one, all gifts of life, the food and wine, the music and the company. ... the gods unloose, one by one, the mortal fingers that cling to the edge of the table.

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Taken, Wine, Tables

Storm Jameson (1926). “Three kingdoms”

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Born: January 8, 1891
Died: September 30, 1986
Occupation: Journalist
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