Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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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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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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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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Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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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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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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