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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

Graham Greene

For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
GRAHAM GREENE

Artist Success Thinking
Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE

Assignment Death Life
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Country Love Loyalty World
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
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
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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Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
All good novelists have bad memories.
GRAHAM GREENE

Bad Goodness Memories

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