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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.

Graham Greene

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
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
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
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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Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
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
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
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
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity

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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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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