They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
GRAHAM GREENESweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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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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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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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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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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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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In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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