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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.

Graham Greene

Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
GRAHAM GREENE

Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
GRAHAM GREENE

Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Joke Side Victim
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
GRAHAM GREENE

Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
GRAHAM GREENE

Desertion Noble Religion Sound
All good novelists have bad memories.
GRAHAM GREENE

Bad Goodness Memories
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 GREENE

Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
GRAHAM GREENE

Important People Value Worth
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
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
GRAHAM GREENE

Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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One Liner Possible
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
GRAHAM GREENE

Discussion Talk
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
GRAHAM GREENE

Beautiful Love One Liner

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