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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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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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You cannot love without intuition.
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So much of a novelist's writing, as I have said, takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the first word appears on the paper. We remember details of our story, we do not invent them.
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Cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any Monoprix store - it's built into all poor-quality goods.
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There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost
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The border means more than a customs house, a passport officer, a man with a gun. Over there everything is going to be different life is never going to be quite the same again after your passport has been stamped.
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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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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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O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever.
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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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Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.
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No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.
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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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love had turned into love affair with a begining and an end.
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There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped' growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.
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The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?
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Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.
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