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Writing 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.

Graham Greene

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
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
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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Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
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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Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
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
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
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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Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner

Writing 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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Writing 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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