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.
GRAHAM GREENEThe 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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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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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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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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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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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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