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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.

Graham Greene

It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Interest Strike
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
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Mathematics Philosophy Pursue Reality Relation Truth Value Worth
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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Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
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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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
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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Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Harm Innocence Lost Meaning World
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

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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