You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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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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A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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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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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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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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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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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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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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