Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
GRAHAM GREENEWe are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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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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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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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.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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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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I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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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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