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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

Graham Greene

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
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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Human Mathematics Philosophy Pursue Reality Relation Truth Value Worth
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
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence 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
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
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
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
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
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

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

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