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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.

Graham Greene

As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

One Liner Possible
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Goodness Innocence Save
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
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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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Country Love Loyalty World
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENE

Face Generation Ourselves Reality
I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
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.
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Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
GRAHAM GREENE

Absence Forever Time
One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
GRAHAM GREENE

Question Talent Time Willing Work
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
GRAHAM GREENE

Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
GRAHAM GREENE

Important People Value Worth

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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