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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.

Graham Greene

She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENE

Face Generation Ourselves Reality
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
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
GRAHAM GREENE

Harm Innocence Lost Meaning World
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
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
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

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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