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Hate is a lack of imagination.

Graham Greene

I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
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
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Food Furniture Home Myself
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
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
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
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
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Mathematics Philosophy Pursue Reality Relation Truth Value Worth
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
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
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Conception Dare Possible
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 can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
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
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
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner

Hate is a lack of imagination.

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