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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.

Graham Greene

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
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
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
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
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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Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
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
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
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
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
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
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
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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Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
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
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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God Kindness Love Myself
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
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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God Mercy Strange Yourself
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim

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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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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