Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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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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You needn’t be so scared. Love doesn’t end. Just because we don’t see each other.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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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.
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I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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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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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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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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They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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