There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
GRAHAM GREENEPolitics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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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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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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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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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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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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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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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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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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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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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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