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

Graham Greene

Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
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
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
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
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
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
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
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Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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Choice Moments Story
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner

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

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