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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!

Graham Greene

It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
GRAHAM GREENE

Change Dangerous Greatness
All good novelists have bad memories.
GRAHAM GREENE

Bad Goodness Memories
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
GRAHAM GREENE

Different Myself Talk Time
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Distance Fiction Journalism Novel Reason Truth Try Writing
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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Action Betrayal Guilty Hands Necessary Study Tension
As long as one suffers one lives.
GRAHAM GREENE

Live Oneself Suffering
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
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Challenge Lying Seek Success Truth
It’s a good world if you don’t weaken.
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Goodness Weakness World Yourself
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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Corruption Enemy Ignorance Simplicity Worst
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Despair Goal Impossible Pay Price
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.
GRAHAM GREENE

Book Childhood Future Moments Ourselves Thankful
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
GRAHAM GREENE

Generalization Love Meaning People Quote
Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Appearance Deep Disappoint
We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
GRAHAM GREENE

Clothes Love Mindset Ourselves Philosophy Time
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
GRAHAM GREENE

Love Relationship Talk
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
GRAHAM GREENE

God Mercy Strange Yourself

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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