Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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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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Eternity 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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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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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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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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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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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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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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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 next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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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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