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.
GRAHAM GREENEOne 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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As long as one suffers one lives.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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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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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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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 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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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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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.
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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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