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

Graham Greene

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
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
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
GRAHAM GREENE

Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
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
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
GRAHAM GREENE

Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
GRAHAM GREENE

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
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
GRAHAM GREENE

Lost Slow Virtue
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
GRAHAM GREENE

Madness Obey Simplicity World

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

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