It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
GRAHAM GREENEWriting is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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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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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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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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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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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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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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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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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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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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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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