We forget very easily what gives us pain.
GRAHAM GREENEThere was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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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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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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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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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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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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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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They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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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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