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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Graham Greene

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Artist Success Thinking
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Harm Innocence Lost Meaning World
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
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Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
GRAHAM GREENE

Better Lying Seek Truth
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
GRAHAM GREENE

Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

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