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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

Graham Greene

Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
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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Question Talent Time Willing Work
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
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
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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Choice Moments Story
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
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
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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Heart Leadership Love Misery Stranger
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Artist Success Thinking

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