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.
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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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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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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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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