The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
When you visualized a man or a 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 shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Innocence is a kind of insanity
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.
Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness.
It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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.
I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different
We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them.
Death was far more certain than God.
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.
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
It's a pity people pick and choose what they learn from the Bible.
I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.
Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we have betrayed, we needn't worry so much about the good and the bad in us. But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination ... then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse.
The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.
How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.
Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
What happens if you drop all the things that make you I?
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
...every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that’s why men have invented God – a being capable of understanding.
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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