In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
GRAHAM GREENEDestruction after all is a form of creation.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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It’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.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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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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One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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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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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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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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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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The 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.
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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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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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