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" Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast. "

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

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

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

" Failure too is a form of death. "

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

" 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. "

" The world doesn't make any heroes anymore. "

" People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. "

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

" 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. "

" We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to. "

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Life

Resigned

" 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? "

" 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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority. "

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

" 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. "

" The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn. "

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Little

Serve

" 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. "

" In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. "

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

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You

Thrillers