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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
Death
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly choose the Soviet Union.
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The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?
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Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.
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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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He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.
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There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost
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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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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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