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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

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
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
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
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
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
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself

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