All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
GRAHAM GREENEIt’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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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’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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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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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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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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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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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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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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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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