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In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.

Graham Greene

We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
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
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
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
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality

In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.

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