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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.

Graham Greene

One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
GRAHAM GREENE

Question Talent Time Willing Work
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
GRAHAM GREENE

Existence God Hate Yourself
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
GRAHAM GREENE

Goodness Weakness World Yourself
It 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 GREENE

Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
GRAHAM GREENE

Food Furniture Home Myself
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
GRAHAM GREENE

Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
GRAHAM GREENE

Humanity Love Oneself People
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
GRAHAM GREENE

Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
GRAHAM GREENE

Joke Side Victim
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
GRAHAM GREENE

Desert Escape Silence Yourself
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE

Assignment Death Life
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
GRAHAM GREENE

Important People Value Worth
Writing 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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
GRAHAM GREENE

Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing

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