I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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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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The 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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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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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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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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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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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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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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One 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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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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