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.
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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Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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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.
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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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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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All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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