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 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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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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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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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.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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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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As long as one suffers one lives.
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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.
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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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