There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
GRAHAM GREENESometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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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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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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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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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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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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My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
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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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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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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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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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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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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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It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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