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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.
"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."
— Graham Greene (Ways of Escape)"But it is impossible to go through life without trust; that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself."
— Graham Greene (The Ministry of Fear)
"You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty 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 five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
— Graham Greene (The Third Man)
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
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