Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
GRAHAM GREENEEternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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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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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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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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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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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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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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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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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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