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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.

Graham Greene

It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
GRAHAM GREENE

Change Dangerous Greatness
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
GRAHAM GREENE

Love Myself Thinking
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
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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Question Talent Time Willing Work
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Mathematics Philosophy Pursue Reality Relation Truth Value Worth
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Better Lying Seek Truth
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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Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Company Desire End
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
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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Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
GRAHAM GREENE

Different Myself Talk Time
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
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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Choice Moments Story
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World

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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