An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
GRAHAM GREENEThe 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.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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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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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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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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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.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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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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My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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