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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.

Graham Greene

An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
GRAHAM GREENE

Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
GRAHAM GREENE

Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
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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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
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.
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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
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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Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
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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Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Interest Strike
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
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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Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
GRAHAM GREENE

Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking

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