It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
GRAHAM GREENEIn the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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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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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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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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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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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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One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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