One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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A 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.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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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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The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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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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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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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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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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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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