Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
GRAHAM GREENEDespair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
GRAHAM GREENEWe are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENEPity is cruel. Pity destroys.
GRAHAM GREENEAgainst 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.
GRAHAM GREENEAll good novelists have bad memories.
GRAHAM GREENEReality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENEIn human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
GRAHAM GREENEShe mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
GRAHAM GREENEDestruction after all is a form of creation.
GRAHAM GREENEAll good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
GRAHAM GREENEHate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
GRAHAM GREENESometimes 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.
GRAHAM GREENEYou cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
GRAHAM GREENEBeauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
GRAHAM GREENEEvery monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
GRAHAM GREENEIt 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.
GRAHAM GREENE