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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

Graham Greene

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
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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Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
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
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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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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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

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