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.
GRAHAM GREENEEvery monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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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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