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 GREENEI had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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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.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Her 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.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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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.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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