For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
GRAHAM GREENEMorality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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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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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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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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As long as nothing happens anything is 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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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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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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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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