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Innocence is a kind of insanity.

Graham Greene

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
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
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
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.
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Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing
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
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence 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
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Corruption Enemy Ignorance Simplicity Worst
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Harm Innocence Lost Meaning World
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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Love Myself Thinking
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself

Innocence is a kind of insanity.

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