Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
GRAHAM GREENEChampagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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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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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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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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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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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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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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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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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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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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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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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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