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"I'm not involved, not involved," I repeated. It has been an article of my creed. The human condition being what it was, let them fight, let them love, let them murder, I would not be involved. My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action " even an opinion is a kind of action."
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"The fact differentiates the fake."
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"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."
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"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."
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"My truth could be very different than your truth."
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"All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?"
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"The truth can do years of work in seconds."
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"The Scripture is never subjected to one's own interpretations."
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"People only stone a tree that is full of ripe fruit."
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"Science is a careful investigation."
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"Macy: "In Truth, I said, "there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.Wes: "How do you win? he askedMacy: "That, I said, "is such a boy question."
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"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."
Thought
"Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are."
Life
"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."
Men
"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."
People
"They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness."
Love
"In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!"
Love
"Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love--it's being unhappy together."
Love
"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 shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination."
Empathy
"Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on clocks and the passage of light. There were no clocks and the light wouldn't change. Nobody really knew how long a second of pain could be. It might last a whole purgatory--or for ever."
Philosophy
"The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching."
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