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.
GRAHAM GREENEIt is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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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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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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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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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.
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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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