Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
GRAHAM GREENEEternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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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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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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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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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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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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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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