God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
GRAHAM GREENEHe was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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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.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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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.
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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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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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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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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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