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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

Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
GRAHAM GREENE

Discussion Talk
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
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
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
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
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
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
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.
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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible

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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