Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
GRAHAM GREENEMorality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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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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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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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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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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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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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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