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I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.

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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Disease
Belief
Love
Like
Fell
Fallen

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It's a good world if you don't weaken.
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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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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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Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.
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I couldn't help wondering, is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him? Except me, of course. I must have wanted him, in a way, once, but I've forgotten why, and I was too young to know what I was choosing.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.
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In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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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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I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different
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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.
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That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.
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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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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Melodrama is one of my working tools and it enables me to obtain effects that would be unobtainable otherwise on the other hand I am not deliberately melodramatic don't get too annoyed if I say that I write in the way that I do because I am what I am.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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