In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
GRAHAM GREENESweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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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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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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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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A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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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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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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In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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