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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
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Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
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American bankers believe in the personal touch the teller conveys a sense that he happens to be there accidentally and he is overjoyed at the lucky chance of the encounter.
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I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.
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That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.
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All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.
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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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So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.
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My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action -- even an opinion is a kind of action.
Graham Greene
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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Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.
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What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?
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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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The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.
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Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got a self to express.
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love had turned into love affair with a begining and an end.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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...every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.
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They are always saying God loves us. If thats love Id rather have a bit of kindness.
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Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.
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Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
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