It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
GRAHAM GREENEIt’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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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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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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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.
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All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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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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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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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.
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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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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.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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