We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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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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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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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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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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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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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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