Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
GRAHAM GREENEThere was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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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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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.
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An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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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.
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