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 GREENEA petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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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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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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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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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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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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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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I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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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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