There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
GRAHAM GREENEIt is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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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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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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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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