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.
GRAHAM GREENEA 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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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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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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In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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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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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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