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Graham Greene

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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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.

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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

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Hate is a lack of imagination.

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As for bread, I count that for nothin'. We always have bread and potatoes enough; but I hold a family to be in a desperate way when the mother can see the bottom of the pork barrel. Give me children that's raised on good sound pork afore all the game in the country. Game's good as a relish and so's bread; but pork is the staff of life. . . My children I calkerlate to bring up on pork with just as much bread and butter as they want.

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Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that’s what we are.

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We need hope. There's nothing worse than to live a life of despair. For a person to have no hope just sucks the blue out of every sky.

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As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

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