Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
GRAHAM GREENEAn autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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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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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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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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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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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.
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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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