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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.

Graham Greene

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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Believe Discover God Love Parents Strange Yourself
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
GRAHAM GREENE

Discussion Talk
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
GRAHAM GREENE

Food Furniture Home Myself
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
GRAHAM GREENE

Love Relationship Talk
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 GREENE

Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
GRAHAM GREENE

Better Lying Seek Truth
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
GRAHAM GREENE

Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
GRAHAM GREENE

Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
GRAHAM GREENE

Beautiful Love One Liner
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
GRAHAM GREENE

Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
GRAHAM GREENE

Himself Lying Return
One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
GRAHAM GREENE

Question Talent Time Willing Work
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE

Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
GRAHAM GREENE

Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom

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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