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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
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
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Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
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They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered.
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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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Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb the six months of rain and the six months of sun was the period of their common gestation. They needed only a few words and a few gestures to convey their meaning. They had graduated through the same fevers, they were moved by the same love and contempt.
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All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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I want men to admire me, but that's a trick you learn at school--a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice, a touch of the hand on the shoulder or the head. If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there's something to admire.
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She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the first stage of my own death, the memories dropping off like gangrened limbs.
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We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.
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In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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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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You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.
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Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.
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There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost
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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
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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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One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac.
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I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.
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