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I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.

Graham Greene

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
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
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
GRAHAM GREENE

Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
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
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
GRAHAM GREENE

Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
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
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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Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work

I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.

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