Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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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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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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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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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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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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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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.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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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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