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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

Graham Greene

I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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Love Myself Thinking
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Artist Success Thinking
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
GRAHAM GREENE

Distance End Love Relationship Scare See
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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Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Live Point Return Time
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
GRAHAM GREENE

Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
GRAHAM GREENE

Discussion Talk
All good novelists have bad memories.
GRAHAM GREENE

Bad Goodness Memories
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Oneself Side

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

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