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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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No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.
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You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.
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Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?
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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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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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If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly choose the Soviet Union.
Graham Greene
There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
Graham Greene
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Graham Greene
Yesterday I went home with him and we did the usual things. I haven't the nerve to put them down, but I'd like to, because now when I'm writing it's already tomorrow and I'm afraid of getting to the end of yesterday. As long as I go on writing, yesterday is today and we are still together
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One can't love humanity. One can only love people.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
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Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac.
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I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.
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I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got a self to express.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.
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The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.
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