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As long as one suffers one lives.

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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A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced
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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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Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.
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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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He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the memory, a wound that would ache whenever certain things combined - the taste of gin at mid-day, the smell of flowers under a balcony, the clang of corrugated iron, an ugly bird flopping from perch to perch.
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They haven't left us much to believe, have they? — even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home, or anything vaguer than a human being.
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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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You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped' growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.
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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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In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise.
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