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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.

Graham Greene

Innocence is a kind of insanity.
GRAHAM GREENE

Innocence Kind One Liner Sanity
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.
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Attraction Beautiful Body Success War
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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Believe Comfortable Hero Man Myself See Value
I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
GRAHAM GREENE

Food Furniture Home Myself
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Bad Journalism Media Word
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Impossible Life Oneself Prison Trust
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
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Desertion Noble Religion Sound
God save us always,’ I said ‘from the innocent and the good.
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God Goodness Innocence Save
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Harm Innocence Lost Meaning World
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human Kindness Relationship Truth Worth
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
GRAHAM GREENE

Human Interest Strike
I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
GRAHAM GREENE

Love Myself Thinking
We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.
GRAHAM GREENE

Assignment Death Life
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
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Artist Success Thinking
Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Hate Imagination One Liner

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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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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