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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Graham Greene

We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE

Assignment Death Life
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
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
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
GRAHAM GREENE

Joke Side Victim
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
GRAHAM GREENE

Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
Sometimes 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 GREENE

Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
GRAHAM GREENE

Easy Forget Pain
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Interest Strike
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
GRAHAM GREENE

Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
GRAHAM GREENE

Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
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
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Heart Leadership Love Misery Stranger
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
GRAHAM GREENE

Different Myself Talk Time
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
GRAHAM GREENE

Live Point Return Time

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