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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.

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
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Country Love Loyalty World
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
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
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
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
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
An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
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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Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
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

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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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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