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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.

Graham Greene

I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
GRAHAM GREENE

Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
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
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
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
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
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing

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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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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