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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
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
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Sooner or later... one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?
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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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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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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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In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations
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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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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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It is the earliest dream that I can remember, earlier than the witch at the corner of the nursery passage, this dream of something outside that has got to come in. The witch, like the masked dancers, has form, but this is simply power, a force exerted on a door, an influence that drifted after me upstairs and pressed against windows.
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Melodrama is one of my working tools and it enables me to obtain effects that would be unobtainable otherwise on the other hand I am not deliberately melodramatic don't get too annoyed if I say that I write in the way that I do because I am what I am.
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My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
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I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
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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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Hate is a lack 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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