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We forget very easily what gives us pain.

Graham Greene

Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Corruption Enemy Ignorance Simplicity Worst
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
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
GRAHAM GREENE

Easy Forget Pain
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
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
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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Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Artist Success Thinking
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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Love Myself Thinking
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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God Kindness Love Myself
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
GRAHAM GREENE

Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics

We forget very easily what gives us pain.

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