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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.

Graham Greene

As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

One Liner Possible
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
GRAHAM GREENE

Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
GRAHAM GREENE

Desert Escape Silence Yourself
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
GRAHAM GREENE

Joke Side Victim
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
GRAHAM GREENE

Live Point Return Time
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
GRAHAM GREENE

Company Desire End
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Kindness Love Myself
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
GRAHAM GREENE

Lost Slow Virtue
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
GRAHAM GREENE

Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Goodness Innocence Save
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
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
GRAHAM GREENE

Absence Forever Time
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
GRAHAM GREENE

Fear Hate Humiliation Response
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
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

Conception Dare Possible

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