In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
GRAHAM GREENEWe forget very easily what gives us pain.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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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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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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