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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

I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
Hate is a lack of imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE

Hate Imagination One Liner
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
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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Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
GRAHAM GREENE

Believe Discover God Love Parents Strange Yourself
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENE

Face Generation Ourselves Reality
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
GRAHAM GREENE

Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
GRAHAM GREENE

Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
GRAHAM GREENE

Heart Leadership Love Misery Stranger
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
GRAHAM GREENE

Black Human Nature
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE

Assignment Death Life
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value

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

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