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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
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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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Had Shakespeare listened to the news of Duncans death in a tavern or heard the knocking on his own bedroom door after he had finished the writing of Macbeth?
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We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.
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He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.
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I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.
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At one with the One, it didn't mean a thing besides a glass of Guinness on a sunny day.
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I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that’s why men have invented God – a being capable of understanding.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced
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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 say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.
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Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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I want men to admire me, but that's a trick you learn at school--a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice, a touch of the hand on the shoulder or the head. If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there's something to admire.
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It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
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