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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.

Graham Greene

The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
GRAHAM GREENE

Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
GRAHAM GREENE

Food Furniture Home Myself
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Cruelty Destroy Pity
As long as one suffers one lives.
GRAHAM GREENE

Live Oneself Suffering
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
GRAHAM GREENE

Important People Value Worth
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Change Dangerous Greatness
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
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
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
GRAHAM GREENE

Absence Forever Time
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
GRAHAM GREENE

Love Myself Thinking
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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Beautiful Love One Liner
Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Fear Hate Humiliation Response
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst

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