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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.

Graham Greene

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
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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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
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
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
Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
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
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
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 a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
GRAHAM GREENE

Live Point Return Time

You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.

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