All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
GRAHAM GREENEDeath 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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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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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’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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