Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
GRAHAM GREENEBeauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
GRAHAM GREENEThere’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
GRAHAM GREENEWe forget very easily what gives us pain.
GRAHAM GREENEAs long as one suffers one lives.
GRAHAM GREENEI hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
GRAHAM GREENEShe mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
GRAHAM GREENEInnocence 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.
GRAHAM GREENEIt’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
GRAHAM GREENEInnocence is a kind of insanity.
GRAHAM GREENEWe are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENEA 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 GREENEIt is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
GRAHAM GREENEDestruction after all is a form of creation.
GRAHAM GREENEGod save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
GRAHAM GREENEPeople who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
GRAHAM GREENEThe 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.
GRAHAM GREENE