My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
GRAHAM GREENEWe never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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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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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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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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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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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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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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