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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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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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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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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To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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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.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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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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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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