It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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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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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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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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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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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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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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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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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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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.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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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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