Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
GRAHAM GREENEAll good novelists have bad memories.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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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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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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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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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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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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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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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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All good novelists have bad memories.
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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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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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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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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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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.
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