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The problem of pretending to be alive.

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
Problem
Pretending
Alive

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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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You don't bless what you love...It's when you want to love and you can't manage it. You stretch out your hands and you say God forgive me that I can't love but bless this thing anyway...We have to bless what we hate...It would be better to love, but that's not always possible.
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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Never presume yours is a better morality.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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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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It is the earliest dream that I can remember, earlier than the witch at the corner of the nursery passage, this dream of something outside that has got to come in. The witch, like the masked dancers, has form, but this is simply power, a force exerted on a door, an influence that drifted after me upstairs and pressed against windows.
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I aim to be content with what I produce. It's an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Death was far more certain than God.
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My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.
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As long as one suffers one lives.
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If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?
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In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise.
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If two people loved, they slept together it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.
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