Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
GRAHAM GREENEIt’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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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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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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The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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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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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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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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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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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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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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