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Sooner or later... one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.

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
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Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
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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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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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You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other.
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I had committed myself: without love I'd have to go through the gestures of love.
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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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I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.
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They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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Never presume yours is a better morality.
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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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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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It's a good world if you don't weaken.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac.
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So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.
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Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps — violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on.
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Cruel men cry easily at the cinema.
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I'm only saying I want you to be happy. I hate your being unhappy. I don't mind anything you do that makes you happy. You just want an excuse. If I sleep with anybody else, you feel you can do the same - any time. That's neither here nor there. I want you to be happy, that's all. You'd make my bed for me? Perhaps.
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My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action -- even an opinion is a kind of action.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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