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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.

Graham Greene

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
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
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
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
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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Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst
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
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
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
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

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