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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.

Graham Greene

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
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
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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Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
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
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
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
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
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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Believe Discover God Love Parents Strange Yourself
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
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
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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Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain

Most things disappoint till you look deeper.

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