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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.

Graham Greene

Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
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
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
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
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
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
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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Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Country Love Loyalty World
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
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
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
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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Love Myself Thinking

Most things disappoint till you look deeper.

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