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.
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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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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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.
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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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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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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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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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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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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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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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To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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