God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
GRAHAM GREENEReality in our century is not something to be faced.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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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.
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A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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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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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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It 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.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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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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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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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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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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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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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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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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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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