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Graham Greene

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Childhood Future Moments Oneself
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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Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
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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Believe Discover God Love Parents Strange Yourself
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Country Love Loyalty World
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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Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Love Relationship Talk
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
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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Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War

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