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They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.

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.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

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.

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

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.

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.

Failure too is a form of death.

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

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.

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

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

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

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.

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

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

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.

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.

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

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

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

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.

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

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

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.

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.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

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.

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.

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

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

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