Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
GRAHAM GREENEAll good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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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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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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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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As long as one suffers one lives.
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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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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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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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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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All good novelists have bad memories.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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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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