All good novelists have bad memories.
GRAHAM GREENEThere’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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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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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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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.
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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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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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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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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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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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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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