For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
GRAHAM GREENEHe was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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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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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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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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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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