Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
GRAHAM GREENEEvery monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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.
GRAHAM GREENEIt is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
GRAHAM GREENEIt is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENEIn human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
GRAHAM GREENEAll good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
GRAHAM GREENEWhen we are not sure, we are alive.
GRAHAM GREENEInnocence is a kind of insanity.
GRAHAM GREENEHate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
GRAHAM GREENEFor an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
GRAHAM GREENEWe forget very easily what gives us pain.
GRAHAM GREENEWe can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
GRAHAM GREENEIt’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.
GRAHAM GREENEAgainst 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.
GRAHAM GREENEIn Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
GRAHAM GREENEInnocence 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.
GRAHAM GREENE