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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
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Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
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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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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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I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different
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Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.
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Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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I couldn't help wondering, is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him? Except me, of course. I must have wanted him, in a way, once, but I've forgotten why, and I was too young to know what I was choosing.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.
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I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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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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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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You cannot love without intuition.
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American bankers believe in the personal touch the teller conveys a sense that he happens to be there accidentally and he is overjoyed at the lucky chance of the encounter.
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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t we have committed our first major sin at seven, have ruined ourselves for love or hate at ten, have clutched at redemption on a fifteen-year-old deathbed?
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That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.
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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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