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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different

Graham Greene

An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
GRAHAM GREENE

Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Assignment Death Life
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
GRAHAM GREENE

Important People Value Worth
Hate is a lack of imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE

Hate Imagination One Liner
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Himself Lying Return
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE

Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
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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Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
GRAHAM GREENE

Heart Leadership Love Misery Stranger
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
GRAHAM GREENE

Desert Escape Silence Yourself
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
GRAHAM GREENE

Desertion Noble Religion Sound
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Mercy Strange Yourself
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
GRAHAM GREENE

Live Point Return Time
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
GRAHAM GREENE

Company Desire End
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
GRAHAM GREENE

Absence Forever Time

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