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 GREENEThe 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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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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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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We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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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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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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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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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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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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