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.
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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To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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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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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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