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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. | | Uncategorized | |
| Reality in our century is not something to be faced. | | Uncategorized | |
| Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay. | | Uncategorized | |
| Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. | | Success | |
| That whisky priest, I wish we had never had him in the house. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Economics | |
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| 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. | | Writers | |
| 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. | | Communication | |
| 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. | | Relationships; Truth | |
| They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness. | | God | |
| Those who marry God can become domesticated too / it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word ''Love'' means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and ''Ave Maria '' like ''dearest'' is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves / it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night. | | Uncategorized | |
| To take an Annamite to bed with you is like taking a bird: they twitter and sing on your pillow | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to. | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| When we are not sure, we are alive. | | Doubt | |
| When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity -- that was a quality God's image carried with it. When you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the thape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination. | | Christianity; Pity | |
