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To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.

Graham Greene

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
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
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
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
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
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
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
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
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.
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Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
GRAHAM GREENE

Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time

To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.

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To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.

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