One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
GRAHAM GREENEOur worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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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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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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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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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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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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