In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
GRAHAM GREENEMy 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.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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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.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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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.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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