When we are not sure, we are alive.
GRAHAM GREENEMy two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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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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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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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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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 next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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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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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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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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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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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 always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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