Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
GRAHAM GREENEChampagne, 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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As long as one suffers one lives.
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My 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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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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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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All good novelists have bad memories.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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