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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
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Hertfordshire
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Who knows whether there may not be a moment in childhood when the world changes forever, like making a face when the clock strikes?
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Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast.The mind too,but it doesn't talk about love.
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In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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love had turned into love affair with a begining and an end.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the possibility of love dying.
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A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.
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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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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb the six months of rain and the six months of sun was the period of their common gestation. They needed only a few words and a few gestures to convey their meaning. They had graduated through the same fevers, they were moved by the same love and contempt.
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Death was far more certain than God.
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Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.
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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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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the memory, a wound that would ache whenever certain things combined - the taste of gin at mid-day, the smell of flowers under a balcony, the clang of corrugated iron, an ugly bird flopping from perch to perch.
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