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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different

Graham Greene

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
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
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
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
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
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 is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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God Kindness Love Myself
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World

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