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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

Graham Greene

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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Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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Question Talent Time Willing Work
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
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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Joke Side Victim
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
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
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
GRAHAM GREENE

Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
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
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself

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