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.
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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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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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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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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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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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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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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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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