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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.
Graham Greene
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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
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Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the possibility of love dying.
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Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac.
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Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
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He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.
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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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Sooner or later... one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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I want men to admire me, but that's a trick you learn at school--a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice, a touch of the hand on the shoulder or the head. If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there's something to admire.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
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You don't bless what you love...It's when you want to love and you can't manage it. You stretch out your hands and you say God forgive me that I can't love but bless this thing anyway...We have to bless what we hate...It would be better to love, but that's not always possible.
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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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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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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American bankers believe in the personal touch the teller conveys a sense that he happens to be there accidentally and he is overjoyed at the lucky chance of the encounter.
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Cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any Monoprix store - it's built into all poor-quality goods.
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I had committed myself: without love I'd have to go through the gestures of love.
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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 have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
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