You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
GRAHAM GREENEMy 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.
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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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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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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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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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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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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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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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