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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.

Graham Greene

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
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
Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
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
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Mathematics Philosophy Pursue Reality Relation Truth Value Worth
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
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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Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
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

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