Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
GRAHAM GREENESometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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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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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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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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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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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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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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