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 GREENEA 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 GREENEPolitics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
GRAHAM GREENEHate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
GRAHAM GREENEHate is a lack of imagination.
GRAHAM GREENEThere was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
GRAHAM GREENEFor an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
GRAHAM GREENEMy 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 GREENEHe was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
GRAHAM GREENEThere’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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 GREENEChampagne, 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 GREENEThere is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
GRAHAM GREENEI had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
GRAHAM GREENEGod save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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 GREENEIn a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
GRAHAM GREENE