Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
GRAHAM GREENEIt is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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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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It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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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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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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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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