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One can't love humanity. One can only love people.

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
Humanity
Love
People
Sociology

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As the end of the what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.
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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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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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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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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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O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever.
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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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Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.
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You cannot love without intuition.
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