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Death was far more certain than God.

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
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All good novelists have bad memories.
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The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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I'm only saying I want you to be happy. I hate your being unhappy. I don't mind anything you do that makes you happy. You just want an excuse. If I sleep with anybody else, you feel you can do the same - any time. That's neither here nor there. I want you to be happy, that's all. You'd make my bed for me? Perhaps.
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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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So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.
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The border means more than a customs house, a passport officer, a man with a gun. Over there everything is going to be different life is never going to be quite the same again after your passport has been stamped.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness.
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Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
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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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They are always saying God loves us. If thats love Id rather have a bit of kindness.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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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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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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As long as nothing happens anything is possible.
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You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.
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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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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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