All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
GRAHAM GREENEWe forget very easily what gives us pain.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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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.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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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.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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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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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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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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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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