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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.

Graham Greene

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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
GRAHAM GREENE

Madness Obey Simplicity World
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
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
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
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
GRAHAM GREENE

Love Relationship Talk
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
GRAHAM GREENE

Change Dangerous Greatness
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
GRAHAM GREENE

Food Furniture Home Myself
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Mercy Strange Yourself
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
GRAHAM GREENE

Cruelty Destroy Pity
It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
GRAHAM GREENE

Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
As long as one suffers one lives.
GRAHAM GREENE

Live Oneself Suffering
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
GRAHAM GREENE

Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
GRAHAM GREENE

Company Desire End
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

Conception Dare Possible

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