It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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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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A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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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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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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