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 GREENEIt 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.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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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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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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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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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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All good novelists have bad memories.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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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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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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