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Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

Graham Greene

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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
Autobiographer
Journalist
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Playwright
Screenwriter
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Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
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Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.
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Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness.
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I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain. I could almost taste metal and salt in the skin, and I thought, How good you are. You might have killed us with happiness, but You let us be with You in pain.
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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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So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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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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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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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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love had turned into love affair with a begining and an end.
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I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.
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