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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

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

Conception Dare Possible
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
GRAHAM GREENE

Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
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
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
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
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
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.
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Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
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
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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Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Interest Strike
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
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
GRAHAM GREENE

Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom

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