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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

In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
GRAHAM GREENE

Company Desire End
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
GRAHAM GREENE

Love Myself Thinking
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Absence Forever Time
All good novelists have bad memories.
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Bad Goodness Memories
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
GRAHAM GREENE

Humanity Love Oneself People
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.
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Beginning Errors Life Necessary Selection
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENE

Face Generation Ourselves Reality
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
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Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
GRAHAM GREENE

Different Myself Talk Time
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
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
GRAHAM GREENE

Food Furniture Home Myself
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
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
GRAHAM GREENE

Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
GRAHAM GREENE

Adult Crime Marriage Money Politics

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.

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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.

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