God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
GRAHAM GREENEHer 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.
More Graham Greene Quotes
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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One can’t love humanity. One can only love people.
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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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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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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