Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
GRAHAM GREENEHe was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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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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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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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
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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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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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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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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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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Beauty is like success: we can’t love it for long.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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