Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
GRAHAM GREENEHate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
GRAHAM GREENEFriendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
GRAHAM GREENEWhen we are not sure, we are alive.
GRAHAM GREENEPeople who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
GRAHAM GREENEA story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
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 GREENEGod save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
GRAHAM GREENEHer 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 GREENEYou cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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 GREENEMost things disappoint till you look deeper.
GRAHAM GREENEFor an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
GRAHAM GREENEDeath will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
GRAHAM GREENEAs long as nothing happens anything is possible.
GRAHAM GREENEDestruction after all is a form of creation.
GRAHAM GREENEIt is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE