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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Graham Greene

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
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
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
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
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
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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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
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
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

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