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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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Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.
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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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Sooner or later... one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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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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One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain. I could almost taste metal and salt in the skin, and I thought, How good you are. You might have killed us with happiness, but You let us be with You in pain.
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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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From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.
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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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The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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One can't love humanity. One can only love people.
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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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Cruel men cry easily at the cinema.
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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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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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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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All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
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It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t we have committed our first major sin at seven, have ruined ourselves for love or hate at ten, have clutched at redemption on a fifteen-year-old deathbed?
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