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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

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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Question Talent Time Willing Work
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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God Kindness Love Myself
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
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
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
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

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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