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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

We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
GRAHAM GREENE

Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
GRAHAM GREENE

Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
GRAHAM GREENE

Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
As long as one suffers one lives.
GRAHAM GREENE

Live Oneself Suffering
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
GRAHAM GREENE

Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
GRAHAM GREENE

Feeling Friendship Oneself Return Soul
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
GRAHAM GREENE

Goodness Weakness World Yourself
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
GRAHAM GREENE

Appearance Deep Disappoint
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
GRAHAM GREENE

Lost Slow Virtue
He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
GRAHAM GREENE

Himself Lying Return
Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
GRAHAM GREENE

Content Mindset Quiet Rich Thinking
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Interest Strike
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
GRAHAM GREENE

Discussion Talk
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
GRAHAM GREENE

Better Lying Seek Truth
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
GRAHAM GREENE

Brain Connection Fingers Ink Myself Poet Writing

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