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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

God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
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
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
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
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
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy 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
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
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
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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Question Talent Time Willing Work
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
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
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
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
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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Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint

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