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.
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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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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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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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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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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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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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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