Hate is a lack of imagination.
GRAHAM GREENEHate is a lack of imagination.
GRAHAM GREENEReality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENEEternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
GRAHAM GREENEWe can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
GRAHAM GREENEIn the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
GRAHAM GREENEIt 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.
GRAHAM GREENEAll good novelists have bad memories.
GRAHAM GREENEDestruction after all is a form of creation.
GRAHAM GREENEYou cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
GRAHAM GREENEThey are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
GRAHAM GREENEHer 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.
GRAHAM GREENEOur worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
GRAHAM GREENESooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
GRAHAM GREENEWhen we are not sure, we are alive.
GRAHAM GREENEWe are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENEBeauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
GRAHAM GREENE