The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
“Happiness comes from the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.” — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
to grow old is to have taken away, one by one, all gifts of life, the food and wine, the music and… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
As often as not our whole self...engages itself in the most trivial of things, the shape of a particular hill, a road… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
All writers who can claim to be called 'living' must be political in a sense. They must have what the Quakers call… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that not a novel in ten thousand is of any use to a child to fit him for life.… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. — Storm Jameson Copy Share
Inevitably, the flood of literary pornography loosed on us is dulling our reactions of surprise or shock. Its writers are forced to raise the… — Storm Jameson Copy Share
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… — Storm Jameson Copy Share
No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life along a… — Storm Jameson Copy Share
For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received. — Storm Jameson Copy Share
All writers who can claim to be called 'living' must be political in a sense. They must have what the Quakers call a concern… — Storm Jameson Copy Share
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. — Storm Jameson Copy Share
Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces. — Storm Jameson Copy Share
Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna. — Storm Jameson Copy Share
Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses. — Storm Jameson Copy Share
... we do not remember people as they were. What we remember is the effect they had on us then, but we remember it… — Storm Jameson Copy Share
