One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
GRAHAM GREENEAs long as one suffers one lives.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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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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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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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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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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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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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.
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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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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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