Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
GRAHAM GREENEHuman nature is not black and white but black and grey.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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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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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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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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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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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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All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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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 never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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