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I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.

Graham Greene

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
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
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 great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
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
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
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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Heart Leadership Love Misery Stranger
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

One Liner Possible

I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.

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I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.

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