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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

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 GREENE

Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
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
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
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
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

Conception Dare Possible
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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Different Myself Talk Time
Hate is a lack of imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE

Hate Imagination One Liner
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
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
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Interest Strike
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
GRAHAM GREENE

Better Lying Seek Truth
Champagne, 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 GREENE

Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Oneself Side
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

Question Talent Time Willing Work
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

One Liner Possible
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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