Best Quotes by Graham Greene (Top 10)
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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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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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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.
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Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
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More Graham Greene Quotes
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Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
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If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?
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It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.
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You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.
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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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Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well as a politick. Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.
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Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
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God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.
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No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
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A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.
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As the end of the what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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