It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
GRAHAM GREENEAs long as one suffers one lives.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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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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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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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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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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