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The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.

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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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As often as not our whole self...engages itself in the most trivial of things, the shape of a particular hill, a road in the town in which we lived as children, the movement of wind in grass. The things we shall take with us when we die will nearly all be small things.
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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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One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past.
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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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invaders always destroy libraries.
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You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.
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... the truth is exactly that which can't be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we are inferior, much.
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