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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.

Graham Greene

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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
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Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
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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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One never knows enough about characters in real life to put them into novels. One gets started and then, suddenly, one can not remember what toothpaste they use what are their views on interior decoration, and one is stuck utterly. No, major characters emerge minor ones may be photographed.
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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 had committed myself: without love I'd have to go through the gestures of love.
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Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Death was far more certain than God.
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You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other.
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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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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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He was like a child with haemophilia: every contact drew blood.
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I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.
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Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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...every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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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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Who knows whether there may not be a moment in childhood when the world changes forever, like making a face when the clock strikes?
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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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The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.
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She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the first stage of my own death, the memories dropping off like gangrened limbs.
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