A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
GRAHAM GREENEHe entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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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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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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