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Graham Greene

Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
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
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
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
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
GRAHAM GREENE

Discussion Talk
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Mercy Strange Yourself
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side

Most things disappoint till you look deeper.

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