We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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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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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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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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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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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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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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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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