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

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" Failure too is a form of death. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. "

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

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