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 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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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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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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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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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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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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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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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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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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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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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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