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.
GRAHAM GREENESo it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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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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As long as one suffers one lives.
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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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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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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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