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Oh, I'm not a Berkeleian. I believe my back's against this wall. I believe there's a sten gun over there. (Graham Greene)
From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever. View quote
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That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer. View quote
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I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused. View quote
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To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort. View quote
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God save us always," I said, "from the innocent and the good. View quote
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Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps - violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on. View quote
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Have you seen a room from which faith has gone?...Like a marriage from which love has gone...And patience, patience everywhere like a fog. View quote
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The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belong to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity. View quote
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I had very good dentures once. Some magnificent gold work. It's the only form of jewelry a man can wear that women fully appreciate. View quote
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Cynicism is cheap-you can buy it at any Monoprix store-it's built into all poor-quality goods. (Graham Greene)
But I'm a bad priest, you see. I know--from experience--how much beauty Satan carried down with him when he fell. Nobody ever said the fallen angels were the ugly ones. Oh, no, they were just as quick and light and . . . View quote
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Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness? View quote
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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. View quote
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It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love. View quote
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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. View quote
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I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her. View quote
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We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts. View quote
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There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief. View quote
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If I stopped loving Him, I would cease to believe in His love. If I loved God, then I would believe in His love for me. It's not enough to need it. We have to love first, and I don't know how. But I need it, how I need it. View quote
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A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced. (Graham Greene)
I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love. View quote
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O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever. View quote
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I couldn't help wondering, is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him? Except me, of course. I must have wanted him, in a way, once, but I've forgotten why, and I was too young to know what I was choosing. View quote
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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. View quote
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