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.
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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I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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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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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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