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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

Graham Greene

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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
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
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Interest Strike
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
GRAHAM GREENE

Important People Value Worth
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Kindness Love Myself
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE

Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
GRAHAM GREENE

Joke Side Victim
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
GRAHAM GREENE

Absence Forever Time
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
GRAHAM GREENE

Lost Slow Virtue
Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
GRAHAM GREENE

Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
GRAHAM GREENE

Love Relationship Talk
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

Conception Dare Possible
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
GRAHAM GREENE

Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
GRAHAM GREENE

Different Myself Talk Time

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