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Destruction after all is a form of creation.

Graham Greene

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Harm Innocence Lost Meaning World
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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God Kindness Love Myself
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
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
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
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
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
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
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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Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End

Destruction after all is a form of creation.

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