Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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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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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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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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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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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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