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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

In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
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
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
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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God Kindness Love Myself
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
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

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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