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Sometimes 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.

Graham Greene

Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
GRAHAM GREENE

Desertion Noble Religion Sound
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
GRAHAM GREENE

Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing
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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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
GRAHAM GREENE

Joke Side Victim
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
GRAHAM GREENE

Live Point Return Time
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
GRAHAM GREENE

Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Interest Strike
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
GRAHAM GREENE

Food Furniture Home Myself
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
GRAHAM GREENE

Himself Lying Return

Sometimes 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.

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Sometimes 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.

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