He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
GRAHAM GREENESo it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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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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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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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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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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