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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.

Graham Greene

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
GRAHAM GREENE

Corruption Enemy Ignorance Simplicity Worst
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
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
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
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
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
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
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
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
All good novelists have bad memories.
GRAHAM GREENE

Bad Goodness Memories
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
GRAHAM GREENE

Lost Slow Virtue

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.

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