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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.

Graham Greene

Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
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
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Harm Innocence Lost Meaning World
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
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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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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Choice Moments Story
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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Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
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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Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value

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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