Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

Graham Greene

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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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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
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
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
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
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
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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Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return 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
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
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
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
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Harm Innocence Lost Meaning World
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
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 was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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Believe Discover God Love Parents Strange Yourself
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
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

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