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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.

Graham Greene

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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Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
GRAHAM GREENE

Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
GRAHAM GREENE

Absence Forever Mathematics Occupy Space Time
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
GRAHAM GREENE

Desert Escape Silence Yourself
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
GRAHAM GREENE

Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Human Interest Strike
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

One Liner Possible
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
GRAHAM GREENE

Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
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Lost Slow Virtue
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENE

Face Generation Ourselves Reality
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
GRAHAM GREENE

Himself Lying Return
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
GRAHAM GREENE

Different Myself Talk Time
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
GRAHAM GREENE

Joke Side Victim

As long as nothing happens anything is possible.

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