He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
GRAHAM GREENEIn human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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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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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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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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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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Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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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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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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