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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different

Graham Greene

In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Corruption Enemy Ignorance Simplicity Worst
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
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
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
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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Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful

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