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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
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Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.
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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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They are always saying God loves us. If thats love Id rather have a bit of kindness.
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love had turned into love affair with a begining and an end.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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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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All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.
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