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

Graham Greene

It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
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
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
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
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
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
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
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
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint

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

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