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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

Graham Greene

There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
GRAHAM GREENE

Live Point Return Time
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
GRAHAM GREENE

Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
GRAHAM GREENE

Country Love Loyalty World
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
GRAHAM GREENE

Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
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
Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
GRAHAM GREENE

Discussion Talk
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
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
As long as one suffers one lives.
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Live Oneself Suffering
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
GRAHAM GREENE

Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
GRAHAM GREENE

Food Furniture Home Myself
You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
GRAHAM GREENE

Distance End Love Relationship Scare See
When we are not sure, we are alive.
GRAHAM GREENE

Alive One Liner

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

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