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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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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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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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The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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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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Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.
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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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Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
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You cannot love without intuition.
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There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost
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I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.
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God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.
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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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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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He was like a child with haemophilia: every contact drew blood.
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Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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