Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
GRAHAM GREENEThe 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.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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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.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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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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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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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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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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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.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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