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" In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! "
Graham Greene
Peace
Clock
Democracy
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" 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. "
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" God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution. "
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" 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. "
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" Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Human nature is not black and white but black and grey. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" The world doesn't make any heroes anymore. "
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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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" Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are. "
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" Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism. "
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" The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties. "
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" We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to. "
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" In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. "
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" Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. "
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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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" Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Failure too is a form of death. "
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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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" 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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