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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.
Graham Greene
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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
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More quotes by Graham Greene
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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Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac.
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We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.
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I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.
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He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.
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Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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Who knows whether there may not be a moment in childhood when the world changes forever, like making a face when the clock strikes?
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What happens if you drop all the things that make you I?
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action -- even an opinion is a kind of action.
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When I replied that I loved her too in that way, I was the liar, not she, for I never lose the consciousness of time: to me the present is never here: it is always last year or next week.
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One never knows enough about characters in real life to put them into novels. One gets started and then, suddenly, one can not remember what toothpaste they use what are their views on interior decoration, and one is stuck utterly. No, major characters emerge minor ones may be photographed.
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Suffering is not increased by numbers one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.
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A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.
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You don't bless what you love...It's when you want to love and you can't manage it. You stretch out your hands and you say God forgive me that I can't love but bless this thing anyway...We have to bless what we hate...It would be better to love, but that's not always possible.
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He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the memory, a wound that would ache whenever certain things combined - the taste of gin at mid-day, the smell of flowers under a balcony, the clang of corrugated iron, an ugly bird flopping from perch to perch.
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My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
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