It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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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All good novelists have bad memories.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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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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The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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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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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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