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Destruction after all is a form of creation.

Graham Greene

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
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
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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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
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
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
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Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time
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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Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Artist Success Thinking
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust

Destruction after all is a form of creation.

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