We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
GRAHAM GREENEI 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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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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A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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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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All good novelists have bad memories.
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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.
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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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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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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