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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

As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
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’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
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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Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
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
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
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
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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Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
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
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
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner

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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