Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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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I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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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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Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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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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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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