Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
GRAHAM GREENEOur worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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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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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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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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It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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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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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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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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