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Innocence is a kind of insanity.

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
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
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
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
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
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
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
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
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
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue

Innocence is a kind of insanity.

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