I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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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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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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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.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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