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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
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
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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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He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.
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One can't love humanity. One can only love people.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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You don't bless what you love...It's when you want to love and you can't manage it. You stretch out your hands and you say God forgive me that I can't love but bless this thing anyway...We have to bless what we hate...It would be better to love, but that's not always possible.
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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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A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.
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The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.
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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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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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Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps — violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on.
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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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Sooner or later... one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got a self to express.
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You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other.
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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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Yesterday I went home with him and we did the usual things. I haven't the nerve to put them down, but I'd like to, because now when I'm writing it's already tomorrow and I'm afraid of getting to the end of yesterday. As long as I go on writing, yesterday is today and we are still together
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