Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
GRAHAM GREENEChampagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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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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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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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.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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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 single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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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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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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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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