I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
GRAHAM GREENEAn 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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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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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 always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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