My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
GRAHAM GREENEFor an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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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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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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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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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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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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We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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