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

Graham Greene

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
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
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
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
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
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Country Love Loyalty World
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
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
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
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
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
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
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side

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

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