For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
GRAHAM GREENE
An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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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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A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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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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All good novelists have bad memories.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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