There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
GRAHAM GREENEWhen we are not sure, we are alive.
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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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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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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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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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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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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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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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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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