Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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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They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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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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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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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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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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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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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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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.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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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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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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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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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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