Hate is a lack of imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE
All 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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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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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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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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It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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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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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
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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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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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