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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.

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
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
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.
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Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
GRAHAM GREENE

Easy Forget Pain
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Interest Strike
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Mercy Strange Yourself
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
GRAHAM GREENE

Love Relationship Talk
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
GRAHAM GREENE

Appearance Deep Disappoint
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Important People Value Worth
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
GRAHAM GREENE

Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Black Human Nature
It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
GRAHAM GREENE

Blood Creature Death Eyes Love

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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