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| Graham Greene
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. 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. 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. 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. Failure too is a form of death. He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return. His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse. In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. 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. Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval. Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism. 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. Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved. 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. 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. They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness. 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. 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. |
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