All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
GRAHAM GREENEPoint me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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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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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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