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" A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority. "

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" In Italy, for 30 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 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. "

" Reality in our century is not something to be faced. "

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

" When we are not sure, we are alive. "

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

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Failure too is a form of death. "

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

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

" The world doesn't make any heroes anymore. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "