For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
GRAHAM GREENEOf two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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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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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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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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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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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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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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It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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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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As long as one suffers one lives.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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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 cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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