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Graham Greene

All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Distance End Love Relationship Scare See
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
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
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
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
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
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE

Assignment Death Life
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul

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