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Graham Greene

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
GRAHAM GREENE

Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Interest Strike
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Choice Moments Story
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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Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life

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