I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
GRAHAM GREENEI aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
GRAHAM GREENEIt 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 GREENEIn human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
GRAHAM GREENEIt 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.
GRAHAM GREENEA single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
GRAHAM GREENEI can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
GRAHAM GREENEHate is a lack of imagination.
GRAHAM GREENESometimes 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.
GRAHAM GREENEIt is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
GRAHAM GREENEIt is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENEChampagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
GRAHAM GREENEChampagne, 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 GREENESooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
GRAHAM GREENEOne has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
GRAHAM GREENEAs long as nothing happens anything is possible.
GRAHAM GREENEInnocence is a kind of insanity.
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