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.
GRAHAM GREENEIt’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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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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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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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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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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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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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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