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

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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. "

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

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

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

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

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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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. "

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

Black And White

" 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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