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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Graham Greene

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
GRAHAM GREENE

Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing
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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Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
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
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
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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Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time

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