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That whisky priest, I wish we had never had him in the house.

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His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse.

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

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The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.

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

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Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are it's what we've all made of the world.

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

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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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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.

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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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Don't be shy. Put your nose right up to the bunghole.

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So much of life is a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing is ever lost by delay.

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

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At the end of what is called the sexual life the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

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Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there is such a thing as truth, and justice is as measured and faultless as a clock. Our heroes are simple they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.

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So many of his prayers had remained unanswered that he had hopes that this one prayer of his had lodged all the time like wax in the Eternal ear.

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

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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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You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood

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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

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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.

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However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance -- so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.

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One of the things which danger does to you after a time is -, well, to kill emotion. I don't think I shall ever feel anything again except fear. None of us can hate anymore - or love.

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We mustn't complain too much of being comedians -- it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed -- that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.

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