Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
GRAHAM GREENEOur worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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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.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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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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My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
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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.
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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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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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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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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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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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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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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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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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