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 GREENEDeath will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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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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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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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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It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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