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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.

Graham Greene

Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
GRAHAM GREENE

Beautiful Love One Liner
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
GRAHAM GREENE

Harm Innocence Lost Meaning World
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
GRAHAM GREENE

Face Generation Ourselves Reality
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
GRAHAM GREENE

Age Curiosity Moral Wisdom
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
GRAHAM GREENE

Joke Side Victim
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
GRAHAM GREENE

Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
GRAHAM GREENE

Bad Journalism Media Word
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
GRAHAM GREENE

Hands Love Myself Taste Touch
One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
GRAHAM GREENE

Humanity Love Oneself People
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Boredom Greatness Party People Word Writing
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Act Audience Courage Image Love Respect
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
GRAHAM GREENE

Company Desire End
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
GRAHAM GREENE

Goodness Weakness World Yourself
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
GRAHAM GREENE

Existence God Hate Yourself
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
GRAHAM GREENE

Love Myself Thinking

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