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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

All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE

Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
GRAHAM GREENE

Madness Obey Simplicity World
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
GRAHAM GREENE

Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Believe Discover God Love Parents Strange Yourself
Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
GRAHAM GREENE

Cruelty Destroy Pity
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
GRAHAM GREENE

Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
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
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
GRAHAM GREENE

Easy Forget Pain
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
GRAHAM GREENE

Humanity Love Oneself People
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
GRAHAM GREENE

Goodness Weakness World Yourself
Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
GRAHAM GREENE

Beautiful Love One Liner
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
GRAHAM GREENE

Appearance Deep Disappoint
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
GRAHAM GREENE

Childhood Future Moments Oneself
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

One Liner Possible
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Mercy Strange Yourself

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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