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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.

Graham Greene

I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
GRAHAM GREENE

Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
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
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
GRAHAM GREENE

Beautiful Love One Liner
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
GRAHAM GREENE

Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
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
One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
GRAHAM GREENE

Question Talent Time Willing Work
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
GRAHAM GREENE

Better Lying Seek Truth
I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE

Assignment Death Life
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
Hate is a lack of imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE

Hate Imagination One Liner
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
GRAHAM GREENE

Joke Side Victim
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Interest Strike
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
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
GRAHAM GREENE

Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point

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