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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

You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
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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Choice Moments Story
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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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
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
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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God Kindness Love Myself
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
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
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

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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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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