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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.

Graham Greene

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
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
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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Heart Leadership Love Misery Stranger
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
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
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
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness

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