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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
Graham Greene
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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
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Henry Graham Greene
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I'm only saying I want you to be happy. I hate your being unhappy. I don't mind anything you do that makes you happy. You just want an excuse. If I sleep with anybody else, you feel you can do the same - any time. That's neither here nor there. I want you to be happy, that's all. You'd make my bed for me? Perhaps.
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Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well as a politick. Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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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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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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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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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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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.
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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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A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced
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All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Had Shakespeare listened to the news of Duncans death in a tavern or heard the knocking on his own bedroom door after he had finished the writing of Macbeth?
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Never presume yours is a better morality.
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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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