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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.

Graham Greene

When we are not sure, we are alive.
GRAHAM GREENE

Alive One Liner
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
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
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Artist Success Thinking
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
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
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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Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
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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Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
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
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
GRAHAM GREENE

Love Relationship Talk
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
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
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness

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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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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