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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 love without intuition.
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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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They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like a pain of an amputated leg no longer there.
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Who knows whether there may not be a moment in childhood when the world changes forever, like making a face when the clock strikes?
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t we have committed our first major sin at seven, have ruined ourselves for love or hate at ten, have clutched at redemption on a fifteen-year-old deathbed?
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What happens if you drop all the things that make you I?
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.
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All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?
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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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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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God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.
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I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.
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