Storm Jameson

Storm Jameson

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Biography

Margaret Ethel ('Storm') Jameson (8 January 1891 – 30 September 1986) was an English journalist and author, known for her novels and reviews and for her work as President of English PEN between 1938 and 1944.

"Hope is a talent like any other."

Storm Jameson

"For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received."

Storm Jameson

"For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received."

Storm Jameson

"We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves of the torrent of information and entertainment pouring from ever-open electronic jaws. It could end by stupefying us."

Storm Jameson

"There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute."

Storm Jameson

"The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable."

Storm Jameson

"Language is memory and metaphor."

Storm Jameson

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

Storm Jameson

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

Storm Jameson

"If we are to survive on this planet there must be compromises."

Storm Jameson

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

Storm Jameson

"I believe that only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present."

Storm Jameson