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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.

Graham Greene

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
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
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
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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Love Myself Thinking
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
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
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
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
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

There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.

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