All good novelists have bad memories.
GRAHAM GREENEMorality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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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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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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