In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
GRAHAM GREENEA 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.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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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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All good novelists have bad memories.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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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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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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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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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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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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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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