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There 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.

Graham Greene

In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
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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Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
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
An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
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
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself

There 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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There 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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