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Graham Greene

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
GRAHAM GREENE

Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
GRAHAM GREENE

Artist Success Thinking
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
GRAHAM GREENE

Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
GRAHAM GREENE

Absence Forever Time
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Interest Strike
I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
GRAHAM GREENE

Company Desire End
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
GRAHAM GREENE

Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
GRAHAM GREENE

Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Oneself Side
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
GRAHAM GREENE

Love Relationship Talk
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
GRAHAM GREENE

Humanity Love Oneself People
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

Conception Dare Possible
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE

Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself

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