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Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.

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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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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It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
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American bankers believe in the personal touch the teller conveys a sense that he happens to be there accidentally and he is overjoyed at the lucky chance of the encounter.
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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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You cannot love without intuition.
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Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.
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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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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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Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever matched the deep excitement of the regular desire. Men always failed you when it came to the act. She might just as well have been to the pictures.
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One can't love humanity. One can only love people.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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If two people loved, they slept together it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in...We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
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You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations
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He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.
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Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness.
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A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.
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