For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
GRAHAM GREENEThere is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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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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All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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