All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
GRAHAM GREENEEternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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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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As long as one suffers one lives.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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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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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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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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