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.
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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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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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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It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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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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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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