There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
GRAHAM GREENEIt is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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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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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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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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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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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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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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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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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.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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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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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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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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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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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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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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