For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
GRAHAM GREENEIn a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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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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They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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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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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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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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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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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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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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