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Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.
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
Writer
Whitby
North Yorkshire
Margaret Storm Jameson
Margaret Ethel Storm Jameson
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Heart
Long
Time
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Failure
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If you think with enough energy about a hoped-for event, it will in the end happen. Not because you willed it. Because it was all the time in your nature.
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You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.
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The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.
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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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Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.
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Language is memory and metaphor.
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There is only one world the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive this minute here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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invaders always destroy libraries.
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Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.
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If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.
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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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A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees.
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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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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
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My mind is not suited to go much into company.
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A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.
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The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.
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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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Fear is the deep motive of abstract art - fear of a repellent civilization which is dominated by the power of things. ... who can be surprised if, more sensitive than the others, the artist is terrified by the power things have acquired over us?
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The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.
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