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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
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Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
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My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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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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Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.
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Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that’s why men have invented God – a being capable of understanding.
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If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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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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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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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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Cruel men cry easily at the cinema.
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love had turned into love affair with a begining and an end.
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Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.
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You cannot love without intuition.
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Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast.The mind too,but it doesn't talk about love.
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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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Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.
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That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.
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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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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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