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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
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Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.
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When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.
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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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That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.
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Had Shakespeare listened to the news of Duncans death in a tavern or heard the knocking on his own bedroom door after he had finished the writing of Macbeth?
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Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different
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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.
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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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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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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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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
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Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.
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Hate is a lack of imagination.
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