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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.

Graham Greene

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
GRAHAM GREENE

Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
GRAHAM GREENE

Himself Lying Return
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
GRAHAM GREENE

Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
GRAHAM GREENE

Madness Obey Simplicity World
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

Conception Dare Possible
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Interest Strike
An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
GRAHAM GREENE

Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
GRAHAM GREENE

Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
GRAHAM GREENE

Desertion Noble Religion Sound
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Mercy Strange Yourself
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
GRAHAM GREENE

Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
GRAHAM GREENE

Fear Hate Humiliation Response
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
GRAHAM GREENE

Joke Side Victim

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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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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