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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Failure too is a form of death. "

" 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. "

" When we are not sure, we are alive. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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