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

Graham Greene

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
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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Believe Discover God Love Parents Strange Yourself
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
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
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
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
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
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
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk

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