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I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.

Graham Greene

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
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
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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Boredom Greatness Party People Word 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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Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
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
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Artist Success Thinking
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Distance End Love Relationship Scare See

I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.

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