Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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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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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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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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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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