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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. "

Graham Greene

Trying

Petty

Truth

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" Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. "

" Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. "

" Human nature is not black and white but black and grey. "

" Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance. "

" They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness. "

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Saying

" Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share. "

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Sentimentality

" No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness. "

" In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. "

" God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution. "

" The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. "

" Reality in our century is not something to be faced. "

" 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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Worst

Cell

" Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. "

" There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. "

" Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing. "

" In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! "

" Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism. "

" Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are. "

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You

Thrillers

" 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. "

" Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years. "

" Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. "

" 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. "

" A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous. "

" I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. "

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Changes

Man

" A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit. "

" Failure too is a form of death. "

" The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him. "

" He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong. "

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Where

Sense

" If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask? "