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.
GRAHAM GREENEHate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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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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As long as one suffers one lives.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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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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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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