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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene 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.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene 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.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene As long as one suffers one lives.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene All good novelists have bad memories.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene
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