Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
GRAHAM GREENEEvery monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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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 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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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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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.
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A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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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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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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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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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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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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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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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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