Graham Greene Quotes
I can’t talk you in terms of time –your time and my time are different
Graham GreeneGraham Greene I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene 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 GreeneGraham Greene Innocence is a kind of insanity.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene One has no talent. I have no talent. It’s just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene 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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