We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENEIt is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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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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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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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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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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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.
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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We 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.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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