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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

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENE

Face Generation Ourselves Reality
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
GRAHAM GREENE

Food Furniture Home Myself
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
GRAHAM GREENE

Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
GRAHAM GREENE

Humanity Love Oneself People
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Kindness Love Myself
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
GRAHAM GREENE

Desert Escape Silence Yourself
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
We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
GRAHAM GREENE

Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time
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 GREENE

Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
GRAHAM GREENE

Himself Lying Return
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
GRAHAM GREENE

Childhood Future Moments Oneself
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

Conception Dare Possible
Hate is a lack of imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE

Hate Imagination One Liner
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Mercy Strange Yourself
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
GRAHAM GREENE

Artist Success Thinking

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.

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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.

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