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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.

Graham Greene

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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Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
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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Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
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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Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
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
Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
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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Heart Leadership Love Misery Stranger
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

As long as nothing happens anything is possible.

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