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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.

Graham Greene

I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
GRAHAM GREENE

Existence God Hate Yourself
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE

Assignment Death Life
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

Conception Dare Possible
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Creation Deep Destruction One Liner Perspective
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
GRAHAM GREENE

Country Love Loyalty World
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
GRAHAM GREENE

Madness Obey Simplicity World
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
GRAHAM GREENE

Food Furniture Home Myself
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
GRAHAM GREENE

Absence Forever Time
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth

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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