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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

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
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
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
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
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
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
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’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
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
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint

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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