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 GREENEWriting 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.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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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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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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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.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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