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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

In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
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
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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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
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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Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time
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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Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing
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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Heart Leadership Love Misery Stranger
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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Human Mathematics Philosophy Pursue Reality Relation Truth Value Worth
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
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
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
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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Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue

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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