One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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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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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 can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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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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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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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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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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