One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
GRAHAM GREENEWe forget very easily what gives us pain.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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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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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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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 was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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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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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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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.
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A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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