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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

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Mathematics Philosophy Pursue Reality Relation Truth Value Worth
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
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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Love Myself Thinking
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
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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Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
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
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
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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Choice Moments Story
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity

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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