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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

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
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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Choice Moments Story
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
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
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
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
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
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
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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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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