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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.

Graham Greene

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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Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
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
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
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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Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
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
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
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
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
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
GRAHAM GREENE

Live Point Return Time
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
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
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 was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.

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