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

Graham Greene

I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
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
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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Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst
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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Challenge Lying Seek Success 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
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
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
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
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
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
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price

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