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In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.

Graham Greene

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
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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Love Myself Thinking
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
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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Human Mathematics Philosophy Pursue Reality Relation Truth Value Worth
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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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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Believe Discover God Love Parents Strange Yourself
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
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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Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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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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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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In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.

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