In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
GRAHAM GREENEThey are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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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.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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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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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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It 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.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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