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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

We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
GRAHAM GREENE

Important People Value Worth
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
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE

Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
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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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE

Assignment Death Life
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
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
GRAHAM GREENE

Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Harm Innocence Lost Meaning World
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
GRAHAM GREENE

Love Relationship Talk
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote

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