Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
GRAHAM GREENEDespair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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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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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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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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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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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.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Sometimes 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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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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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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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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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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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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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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