Destruction after all is a form of creation.
GRAHAM GREENEGod save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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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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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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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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The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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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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Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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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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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.
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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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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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