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Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.

Graham Greene

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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
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Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
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So much of a novelist's writing, as I have said, takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the first word appears on the paper. We remember details of our story, we do not invent them.
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love had turned into love affair with a begining and an end.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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They haven't left us much to believe, have they? — even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home, or anything vaguer than a human being.
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
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Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
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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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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
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Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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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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