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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.

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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
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I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the possibility of love dying.
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Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.
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Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.
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I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
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One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.
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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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Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.
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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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I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain. I could almost taste metal and salt in the skin, and I thought, How good you are. You might have killed us with happiness, but You let us be with You in pain.
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That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.
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I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever.
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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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I wrote at the start that this was a record of hate, and walking there beside Henry towards the evening glass of beer, I found the one prayer that seemed to serve the winter mood: O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone forever.
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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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