It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
GRAHAM GREENEFor an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
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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.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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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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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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