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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

Graham Greene

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Mathematics Philosophy Pursue Reality Relation Truth Value Worth
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
It 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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Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
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
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
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
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
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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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
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
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
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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Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
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
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
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
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
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
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return

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