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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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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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All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.
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He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.
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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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If two people loved, they slept together it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.
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Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.
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What happens if you drop all the things that make you I?
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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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So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.
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Cruel men cry easily at the cinema.
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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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God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.
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One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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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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We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.
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