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They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.

Graham Greene

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
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
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…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
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
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
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
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
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
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
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
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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God Kindness Love Myself
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
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
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
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
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
You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Distance End Love Relationship Scare See
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
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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