"Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.“

-Graham Greene

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"Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered."

-Graham Greene

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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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"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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"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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"Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully."

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"It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself."

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