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.
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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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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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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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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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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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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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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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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