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Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.

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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
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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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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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The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.
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I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.
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Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps — violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.
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Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.
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Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever matched the deep excitement of the regular desire. Men always failed you when it came to the act. She might just as well have been to the pictures.
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For a good man fame is always a problem.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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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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