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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

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
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
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
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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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
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth

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

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