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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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" 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 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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