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We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.

Graham Greene

All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
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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Believe Discover God Love Parents Strange Yourself
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Artist Success Thinking
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
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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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
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
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
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
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
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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Heart Leadership Love Misery Stranger
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
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
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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God Kindness Love Myself
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

We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.

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We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.

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