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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
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
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I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
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In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise.
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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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Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.
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He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever matched the deep excitement of the regular desire. Men always failed you when it came to the act. She might just as well have been to the pictures.
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Cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any Monoprix store - it's built into all poor-quality goods.
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Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness.
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What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?
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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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I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.
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Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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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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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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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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