Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
GRAHAM GREENESo it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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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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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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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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All good novelists have bad memories.
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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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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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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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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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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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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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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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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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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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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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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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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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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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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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