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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

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Country Love Loyalty World
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
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

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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