In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
GRAHAM GREENEChampagne, 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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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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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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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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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 can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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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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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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