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I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.

Graham Greene

There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
GRAHAM GREENE

Joke Side Victim
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
GRAHAM GREENE

Madness Obey Simplicity World
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
GRAHAM GREENE

Discussion Talk
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
GRAHAM GREENE

Corruption Enemy Ignorance Simplicity Worst
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

Conception Dare Possible
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
GRAHAM GREENE

Fear Hate Humiliation Response
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
GRAHAM GREENE

Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
GRAHAM GREENE

Change Dangerous Greatness
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 GREENE

Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World

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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