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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.

Graham Greene

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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Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
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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Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
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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Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
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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Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing
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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Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Distance End Love Relationship Scare See
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote

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