We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENEIt’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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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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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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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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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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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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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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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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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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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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