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Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.
Storm Jameson
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Storm Jameson
Age: 95 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 8
Died: 1986
Died: September 30
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Whitby
North Yorkshire
Margaret Storm Jameson
Margaret Ethel Storm Jameson
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I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city it is as if I had become invisible.
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You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.
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The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving to go on living than a craving for redemption. Oh, and a protest against absurdity.
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I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one below the other in my mind.
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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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Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.
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To reject censorship after studying the risks involved is very well. To reject it ex cathedra, in the tones of Calvin pronouncing a dogma, eyes and mind closed to the possible consequences, the even marginally possible, is to make things too comfortable for oneself.
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Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.
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