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A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

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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Laughing
Often
Superiority
Solitary

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As the end of the what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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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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Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.
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Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.
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I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different
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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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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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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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So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.
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Cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any Monoprix store - it's built into all poor-quality goods.
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