For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
GRAHAM GREENEAs long as one suffers one lives.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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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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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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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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They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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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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