You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
GRAHAM GREENEYou needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
GRAHAM GREENEFor an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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 GREENEIt’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
GRAHAM GREENEHer 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 GREENEPoint me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
GRAHAM GREENEI can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
GRAHAM GREENEIn human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
GRAHAM GREENEWe are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENEOne has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
GRAHAM GREENEDestruction after all is a form of creation.
GRAHAM GREENEI 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 GREENEFriendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
GRAHAM GREENEDespair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
GRAHAM GREENESometimes 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 GREENEOne can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
GRAHAM GREENE