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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.

Graham Greene

God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
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 always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
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
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
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
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
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
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

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.

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