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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 Greene

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENE

Face Generation Ourselves Reality
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
GRAHAM GREENE

Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Artist Success Thinking
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Desert Escape Silence Yourself
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE

Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
GRAHAM GREENE

Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
GRAHAM GREENE

Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

One Liner Possible
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

Conception Dare Possible
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
GRAHAM GREENE

Childhood Future Moments Oneself

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.

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