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 GREENEHe was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
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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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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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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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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.
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I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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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.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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