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Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.

Graham Greene

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
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
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
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
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
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
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
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
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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Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing

Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.

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