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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

We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
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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Question Talent Time Willing Work
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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Choice Moments Story
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
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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Love Myself Thinking
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
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
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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Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Corruption Enemy Ignorance Simplicity Worst
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
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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Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue

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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