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 GREENEBeauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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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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They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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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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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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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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