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.
GRAHAM GREENEHate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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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.
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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