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

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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
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Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
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I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.
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If two people loved, they slept together it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.
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People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
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My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
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There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.
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The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety.
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I had committed myself: without love I'd have to go through the gestures of love.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness.
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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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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac.
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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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Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps — violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on.
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different
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Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
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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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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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