We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENEI 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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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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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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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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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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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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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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