It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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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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Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Of 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.
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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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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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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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In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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