He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
GRAHAM GREENEWriting 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.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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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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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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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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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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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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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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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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The 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.
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