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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.

Graham Greene

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
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
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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Question Talent Time Willing Work
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
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
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
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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Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
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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Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
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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Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering

In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.

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