Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
GRAHAM GREENEAll good novelists have bad memories.
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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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We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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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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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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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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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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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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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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