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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.

Graham Greene

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
GRAHAM GREENE

Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
GRAHAM GREENE

Madness Obey Simplicity World
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
GRAHAM GREENE

Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE

Assignment Death Life
One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
GRAHAM GREENE

Question Talent Time Willing Work
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
GRAHAM GREENE

Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
GRAHAM GREENE

Food Furniture Home Myself
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
GRAHAM GREENE

Humanity Love Oneself People
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing
Hate is a lack of imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE

Hate Imagination One Liner
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
GRAHAM GREENE

Absence Forever Time
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
GRAHAM GREENE

Appearance Deep Disappoint
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
GRAHAM GREENE

Love Relationship Talk
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
GRAHAM GREENE

Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust

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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