So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
GRAHAM GREENEIt’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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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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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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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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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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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 Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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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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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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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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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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