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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?

Graham Greene

There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
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
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
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
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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Love Myself Thinking
It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
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Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
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
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself

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