There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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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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Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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In 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.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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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.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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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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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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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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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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