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We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.

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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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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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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One can't love humanity. One can only love people.
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A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.
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So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.
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Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness.
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Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.
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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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I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.
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Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.
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God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.
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If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?
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Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever matched the deep excitement of the regular desire. Men always failed you when it came to the act. She might just as well have been to the pictures.
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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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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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