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.
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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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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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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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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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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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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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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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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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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