In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
GRAHAM GREENEHuman nature is not black and white but black and grey.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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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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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.
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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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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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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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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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