Storm Jameson - Life Quotes

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It's an illusion to think that more comfort means more happiness. Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

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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 channel of communication closed to painter, mathematician, musician, film-maker.

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The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

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I am persuaded that not a novel in ten thousand is of any use to a child to fit him for life. The most are of use only to unfit him — to blunt his senses and infect him with the writers' poor silly sentiments. Nine out of ten novelists deserve to be prosecuted under an Adulterated Emotions Act.

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To grow old is to have taken away, one by one, all gifts of life, the food and wine, the music and the company…. The gods unloose, one by one, the mortal fingers that cling to the edge of the table.

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Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself — except why he was born and the meaning of his unique life?

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The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.

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