We forget very easily what gives us pain.
GRAHAM GREENEAs long as nothing happens anything is possible.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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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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An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ – it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
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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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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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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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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
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