Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
GRAHAM GREENEI 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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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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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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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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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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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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