Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENEFriendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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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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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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