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Graham Greene

There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
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
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
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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Believe Discover God Love Parents Strange Yourself
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
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
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
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
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
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
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
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price

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