All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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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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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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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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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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