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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

We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
GRAHAM GREENE

Important People Value Worth
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
GRAHAM GREENE

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

Face Generation Ourselves Reality
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
GRAHAM GREENE

Love Myself Thinking
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
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
My 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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE

Assignment Death Life
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
GRAHAM GREENE

Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
GRAHAM GREENE

Corruption Enemy Ignorance Simplicity Worst
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Kindness Love Myself
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
GRAHAM GREENE

Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

One Liner Possible
Sometimes 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 GREENE

Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value

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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