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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.

Graham Greene

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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
Autobiographer
Journalist
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Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
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I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.
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In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise.
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So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.
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Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
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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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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.
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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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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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Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
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From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.
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It's a good world if you don't weaken.
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The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.
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Melodrama is one of my working tools and it enables me to obtain effects that would be unobtainable otherwise on the other hand I am not deliberately melodramatic don't get too annoyed if I say that I write in the way that I do because I am what I am.
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