Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
GRAHAM GREENEIn Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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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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It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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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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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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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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