God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
GRAHAM GREENEAs long as nothing happens anything is possible.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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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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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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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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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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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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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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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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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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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.
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One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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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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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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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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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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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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