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We forget very easily what gives us pain.

Graham Greene

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
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn’t being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love–it’s being unhappy together.
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Avoid Beautiful Discover Face Happiness Love Tears Togetherness Ugly
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
GRAHAM GREENE

Food Furniture Home Myself
Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Discussion Talk
Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Face Generation Ourselves Reality
In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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Heart Leadership Love Misery Stranger
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Madness Obey Simplicity World
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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Goodness Himself Ignorance Intention
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
GRAHAM GREENE

Lost Slow Virtue
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
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Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
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
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Dangerous Discover Leadership Life Man Misery Strange Time Worst
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in…We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful

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