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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

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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Blood Creature Death Eyes Love
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.
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Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
GRAHAM GREENE

Change Dangerous Greatness
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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Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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Easy Forget Pain
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Human Oneself Side
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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Guard Harm Innocence Protection Wisdom World
Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Country Love Loyalty World
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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Humanity Love Oneself People
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
GRAHAM GREENE

Appearance Deep Disappoint
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

Conception Dare Possible
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
GRAHAM GREENE

Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
GRAHAM GREENE

Different Myself Talk Time
Sometimes 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 GREENE

Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Corruption Enemy Ignorance Simplicity Worst
Innocence is a kind of insanity.
GRAHAM GREENE

Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity

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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