I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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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I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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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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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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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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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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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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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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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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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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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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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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As long as one suffers one lives.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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