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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Graham Greene

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Corruption Enemy Ignorance Simplicity Worst
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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Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
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
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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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
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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Believe Discover God Love Parents Strange Yourself
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
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
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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Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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Choice Moments Story

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