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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.

Graham Greene

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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
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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Choice Moments Story
It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
GRAHAM GREENE

Question Talent Time Willing Work
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
Champagne, 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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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
GRAHAM GREENE

Bad Journalism Media Word

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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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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