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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

We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE

Assignment Death Life
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
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
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
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
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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God Kindness Love Myself
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side

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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