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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.

Graham Greene

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
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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Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
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
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
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
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side

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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