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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
Monologues
Sooner
Discussion
Later
Becomes
Every
Monologue

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That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.
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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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I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.
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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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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.
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Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.
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Who knows whether there may not be a moment in childhood when the world changes forever, like making a face when the clock strikes?
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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 had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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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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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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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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You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other.
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Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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