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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.

Graham Greene

In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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Heart Leadership Love Misery Stranger
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
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
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
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
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Corruption Enemy Ignorance Simplicity Worst
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself

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