Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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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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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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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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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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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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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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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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