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.
GRAHAM GREENEThere is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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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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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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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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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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