An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
GRAHAM GREENEI say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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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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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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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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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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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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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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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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