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Never presume yours is a better morality.

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
Presume
Morality
Better
Never

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Suffering is not increased by numbers one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.
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I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.
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I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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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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Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb the six months of rain and the six months of sun was the period of their common gestation. They needed only a few words and a few gestures to convey their meaning. They had graduated through the same fevers, they were moved by the same love and contempt.
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Death was far more certain than God.
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If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?
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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'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.
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When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.
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At one with the One, it didn't mean a thing besides a glass of Guinness on a sunny day.
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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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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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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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He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.
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