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Graham Greene

They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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God Kindness Love Myself
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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Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Artist Success Thinking
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Mathematics Philosophy Pursue Reality Relation Truth Value Worth
We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
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Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
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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Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature

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