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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Graham Greene

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
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Country Love Loyalty World
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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God Kindness Love Myself
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
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Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
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Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
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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Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
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

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