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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

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
GRAHAM GREENE

Childhood Future Moments Oneself
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Kindness Love Myself
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
GRAHAM GREENE

Brother Democracy Love Peace Production
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
To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
GRAHAM GREENE

Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
All good novelists have bad memories.
GRAHAM GREENE

Bad Goodness Memories
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 GREENE

Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
GRAHAM GREENE

Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

Conception Dare Possible
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
GRAHAM GREENE

Appearance Deep Disappoint
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
GRAHAM GREENE

Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
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
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
GRAHAM GREENE

Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
GRAHAM GREENE

Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Blood Creature Death Eyes Love

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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