For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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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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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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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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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