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Graham Greene

One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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Question Talent Time Willing Work
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
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
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
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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Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
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
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
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

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