I aim to be content with what I produce. It’s an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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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Destruction after all is a form of creation.
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Sooner or later; one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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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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Every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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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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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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Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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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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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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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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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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