There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
GRAHAM GREENEThere is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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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 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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I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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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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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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