She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
GRAHAM GREENEIt is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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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.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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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.
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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