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

Graham Greene

There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
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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Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
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
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Distance End Love Relationship Scare See
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
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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Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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Question Talent Time Willing Work
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
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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Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Mathematics Philosophy Pursue Reality Relation Truth Value Worth
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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Heart Leadership Love Misery Stranger
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.
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Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing

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