A 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 GREENEI can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
More Graham Greene Quotes
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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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.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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They are always saying God loves us. If thats love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
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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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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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