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.
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.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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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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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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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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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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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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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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I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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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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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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