All good novelists have bad memories.
GRAHAM GREENEReality in our century is not something to be faced.
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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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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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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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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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