There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
GRAHAM GREENEOne 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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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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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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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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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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Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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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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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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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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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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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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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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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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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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