Storm Jameson
12 quotes
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."
"For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received."
"For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received."
"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."
"There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute."
"The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable."
"Language is memory and metaphor."
"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply to enjoy simply to think freely to risk life to be needed."
"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply to enjoy simply to think freely to risk life to be needed."
"If we are to survive on this planet there must be compromises."
"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply to enjoy simply to think freely to risk life to be needed."
"I believe that only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present."