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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.

Graham Greene

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
GRAHAM GREENE

Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Interest Strike
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
GRAHAM GREENE

Lost Slow Virtue
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
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
GRAHAM GREENE

Beautiful Love One Liner
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

Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
GRAHAM GREENE

Cruelty Destroy Pity
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
GRAHAM GREENE

Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENE

Face Generation Ourselves Reality
When we are not sure, we are alive.
GRAHAM GREENE

Alive One Liner
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
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
GRAHAM GREENE

Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
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
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
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

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