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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.

Graham Greene

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
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
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
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
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
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
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Country Love Loyalty World
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote

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