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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

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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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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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.
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Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.
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