Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
GRAHAM GREENEOne can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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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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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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