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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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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

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

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