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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.

Graham Greene

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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
Danger
Everyone
Great
Shocking
Changes

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Suffering is not increased by numbers one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.
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Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.
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Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.
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I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
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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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A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.
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Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.
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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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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac.
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Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.
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He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.
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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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