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> [Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/storm-jameson/only-one-person-in-a-thousand-knows-the-trick-of-really-living-in-the/)

[Storm Jameson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/storm-jameson/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/storm-jameson/the-past-is-able-to-close-round-certain-moments-as-if-they-were-seeds/)

[Storm Jameson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/storm-jameson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4dc/storm-jameson-7438_able_the-past-is-able-to-close-round-certain_2654360.png)

> [Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/storm-jameson/only-one-person-in-a-thousand-knows-the-trick-of-really-living-in-the-2/)

[Storm Jameson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/storm-jameson/)

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## More by Storm Jameson

> [Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/storm-jameson/only-one-person-in-a-thousand-knows-the-trick-of-really-living-in-the/)

[Storm Jameson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/storm-jameson/inevitably-the-flood-of-literary-pornography-loosed-on-us-is-dulling/)

[Storm Jameson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/storm-jameson/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/storm-jameson/think-of-all-the-really-successful-men-and-women-you-know-do-you-know/)

[Storm Jameson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/storm-jameson/)

> [No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life along a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/storm-jameson/no-form-of-art-repeats-or-imitates-successfully-all-that-can-be-said/)

[Storm Jameson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/storm-jameson/)

> [For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/storm-jameson/for-what-i-have-received-may-the-lord-make-me-truly-thankful-and-more/)

[Storm Jameson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/storm-jameson/all-writers-who-can-claim-to-be-called-living-must-be-political-in-a/)

[Storm Jameson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/storm-jameson/)

> [Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/storm-jameson/happiness-comes-of-the-capacity-to-feel-deeply-to-enjoy-simply-to/)

[Storm Jameson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/storm-jameson/)

> [Hope is a talent like any other.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/storm-jameson/hope-is-a-talent-like-any-other/)

[Storm Jameson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/storm-jameson/)

> [You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/storm-jameson/you-can-t-argue-with-a-raging-want-you-can-but-it-is-useless/)

[Storm Jameson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/storm-jameson/nationalism-will-keep-its-venom-until-we-succeed-in-creating-an-image/)

[Storm Jameson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/storm-jameson/)

> [Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/storm-jameson/lord-if-there-is-a-heartache-vienna-cannot-cure-i-hope-never-to-feel/)

[Storm Jameson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/storm-jameson/)

> [Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/storm-jameson/language-is-one-of-the-thin-walls-humanity-has-built-up-over/)

[Storm Jameson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/storm-jameson/we-do-not-remember-people-as-they-were-what-we-remember-is-the-effect/)

[Storm Jameson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/storm-jameson/)

> [Failures to love are irremediable and irredeemable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/storm-jameson/failures-to-love-are-irremediable-and-irredeemable/)

[Storm Jameson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/storm-jameson/)

> [... the stomach is near the heart and one appetite pricks on another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/storm-jameson/the-stomach-is-near-the-heart-and-one-appetite-pricks-on-another/)

[Storm Jameson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/storm-jameson/)

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