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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

Graham Greene

I 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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Achievement Content Goal Myself Possible Production Satisfaction Time Work
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

Conception Dare Possible
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
GRAHAM GREENE

Desert Escape Silence Yourself
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
GRAHAM GREENE

Discussion Talk
When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Alive One Liner
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Interest Strike
As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
GRAHAM GREENE

One Liner Possible
Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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Case Death Fear Priest Wrong
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
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
GRAHAM GREENE

Bad Forget Goodness Imagination Journalism Memories Yourself
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Cold Diamond Heart Oneself Precious Value Warmth
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.
GRAHAM GREENE

Ego Evil Happiness Ignorance Man Myself Point
We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
GRAHAM GREENE

Important People Value Worth
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
GRAHAM GREENE

Different Myself Talk Time
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
GRAHAM GREENE

Escape Fear Human Management Myself Situation Therapy Wonder Writing
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Attraction Beautiful Body Success War

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

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