All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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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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One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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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.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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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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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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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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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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