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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.

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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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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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That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.
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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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A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.
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Cruel men cry easily at the cinema.
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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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Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?
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They haven't left us much to believe, have they? — even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home, or anything vaguer than a human being.
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I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?
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I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.
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