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It's a good world if you don't weaken.
Graham Greene
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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
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Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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I wrote at the start that this was a record of hate, and walking there beside Henry towards the evening glass of beer, I found the one prayer that seemed to serve the winter mood: 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 forever.
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The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.
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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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You cannot love without intuition.
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What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?
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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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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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No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.
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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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He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.
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The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety.
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Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Sooner or later... one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.
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