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 GREENEThe great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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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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Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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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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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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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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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.
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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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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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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