I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
GRAHAM GREENEThere is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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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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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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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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In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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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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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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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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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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