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Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.

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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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
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One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand.
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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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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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For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
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He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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When I replied that I loved her too in that way, I was the liar, not she, for I never lose the consciousness of time: to me the present is never here: it is always last year or next week.
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