Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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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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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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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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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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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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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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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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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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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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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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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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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