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Graham Greene

You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
GRAHAM GREENE

Distance End Love Relationship Scare See
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
Her 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 GREENE

Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
GRAHAM GREENE

Better Lying Seek Truth
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
GRAHAM GREENE

Desert Escape Silence Yourself
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
GRAHAM GREENE

Harm Innocence Lost Meaning World
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
GRAHAM GREENE

Childhood Future Moments Oneself
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Choice Moments Story
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
GRAHAM GREENE

Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
GRAHAM GREENE

Corruption Enemy Ignorance Simplicity Worst
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Heart Leadership Love Misery Stranger
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE

Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
GRAHAM GREENE

Fear Hate Humiliation Response
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
GRAHAM GREENE

Company Desire End
Hate is a lack of imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE

Hate Imagination One Liner
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Oneself Side

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