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A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

Graham Greene

An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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Love Myself Thinking
In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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Heart Leadership Love Misery Stranger
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

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