So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
GRAHAM GREENEAs long as nothing happens anything is possible.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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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.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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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.
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I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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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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A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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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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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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