Destruction after all is a form of creation.
GRAHAM GREENEWriting 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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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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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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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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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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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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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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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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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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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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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.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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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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As long as one suffers one lives.
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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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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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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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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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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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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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I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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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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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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