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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.

Graham Greene

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
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
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Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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Choice Moments Story
It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
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
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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Love Myself Thinking
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life

I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.

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