Happiness Comes Quotes by Storm Jameson

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

— Storm Jameson

Inevitably, the flood of literary pornography loosed on us is dulling our reactions of surprise or shock. Its writers are forced to raise the…

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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…

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No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life along a…

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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.

— Storm Jameson

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

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

— Storm Jameson

Hope is a talent like any other.

— Storm Jameson

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

— Storm Jameson

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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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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Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.

— Storm Jameson

... 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

Failures to love are irremediable and irredeemable.

— Storm Jameson

... the stomach is near the heart and one appetite pricks on another.

— Storm Jameson