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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Graham Greene

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
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
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
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Corruption Enemy Ignorance Simplicity Worst
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
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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Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Artist Success Thinking
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Harm Innocence Lost Meaning World
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
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
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word

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