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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

Graham Greene

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
GRAHAM GREENE

Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
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
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

Conception Dare Possible
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Interest Strike
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
GRAHAM GREENE

Love Myself Thinking
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
GRAHAM GREENE

Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
GRAHAM GREENE

Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Existence God Hate Yourself
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Mathematics Philosophy Pursue Reality Relation Truth Value Worth
It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
GRAHAM GREENE

Believe Discover God Love Parents Strange Yourself
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Kindness Love Myself
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
GRAHAM GREENE

Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
GRAHAM GREENE

Joke Side Victim
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
GRAHAM GREENE

Cruelty Destroy Pity

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