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Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.
Graham Greene
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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
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It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t we have committed our first major sin at seven, have ruined ourselves for love or hate at ten, have clutched at redemption on a fifteen-year-old deathbed?
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I want men to admire me, but that's a trick you learn at school--a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice, a touch of the hand on the shoulder or the head. If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there's something to admire.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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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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Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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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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One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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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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The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.
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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 never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.
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My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.
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It is the earliest dream that I can remember, earlier than the witch at the corner of the nursery passage, this dream of something outside that has got to come in. The witch, like the masked dancers, has form, but this is simply power, a force exerted on a door, an influence that drifted after me upstairs and pressed against windows.
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She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the first stage of my own death, the memories dropping off like gangrened limbs.
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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
Graham Greene
One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.
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