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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.

Graham Greene

In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
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
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
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
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
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
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
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
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
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
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner

Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.

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