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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Graham Greene

They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Kindness Love Myself
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
GRAHAM GREENE

Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENE

Face Generation Ourselves Reality
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
GRAHAM GREENE

Easy Forget Pain
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Goodness Innocence Save
Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
GRAHAM GREENE

Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
GRAHAM GREENE

Joke Side Victim
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Mercy Strange Yourself
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
GRAHAM GREENE

Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
GRAHAM GREENE

Absence Forever Time
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE

Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
As long as one suffers one lives.
GRAHAM GREENE

Live Oneself Suffering
To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
GRAHAM GREENE

Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
Hate is a lack of imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE

Hate Imagination One Liner
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
GRAHAM GREENE

Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst

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