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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
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Morality
Better
Never

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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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He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.
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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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I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different
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Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt
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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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All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
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Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.
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O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever.
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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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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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I couldn't help wondering, is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him? Except me, of course. I must have wanted him, in a way, once, but I've forgotten why, and I was too young to know what I was choosing.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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...every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on clocks and the passage of light. There were no clocks and the light wouldn't change. Nobody really knew how long a second of pain could be. It might last a whole purgatory--or for ever.
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There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped' growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.
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