All good novelists have bad memories.
GRAHAM GREENEYou cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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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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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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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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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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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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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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