I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
GRAHAM GREENEYou needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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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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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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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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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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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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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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