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.
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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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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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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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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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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In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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An 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.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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