Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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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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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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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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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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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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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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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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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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