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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.

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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
Disappoint
Till
Deeper
Look
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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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They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like a pain of an amputated leg no longer there.
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Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast.The mind too,but it doesn't talk about love.
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Sooner or later... one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.
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I had committed myself: without love I'd have to go through the gestures of love.
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One never knows enough about characters in real life to put them into novels. One gets started and then, suddenly, one can not remember what toothpaste they use what are their views on interior decoration, and one is stuck utterly. No, major characters emerge minor ones may be photographed.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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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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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.
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Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.
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In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t we have committed our first major sin at seven, have ruined ourselves for love or hate at ten, have clutched at redemption on a fifteen-year-old deathbed?
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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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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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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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I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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