Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
GRAHAM GREENEThe hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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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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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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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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As long as one suffers one lives.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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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 forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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