A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
GRAHAM GREENEA story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
GRAHAM GREENEIn our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
GRAHAM GREENEOne can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
GRAHAM GREENEI had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
GRAHAM GREENEIt is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
GRAHAM GREENESweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
GRAHAM GREENEWe are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENEThere is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
GRAHAM GREENEThere is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
GRAHAM GREENEWe forget very easily what gives us pain.
GRAHAM GREENEI 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 GREENEYou needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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 GREENEHuman nature is not black and white but black and grey.
GRAHAM GREENEHate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
GRAHAM GREENE