You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
GRAHAM GREENEAll good novelists have bad memories.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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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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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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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.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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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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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.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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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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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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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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