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

Graham Greene

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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Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
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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Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Harm Innocence Lost Meaning World
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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Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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God Kindness Love Myself
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Distance End Love Relationship Scare See
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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Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side

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

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