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For a good man fame is always a problem.

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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I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the possibility of love dying.
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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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There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped' growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.
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They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like a pain of an amputated leg no longer there.
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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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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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One never knows enough about characters in real life to put them into novels. One gets started and then, suddenly, one can not remember what toothpaste they use what are their views on interior decoration, and one is stuck utterly. No, major characters emerge minor ones may be photographed.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.
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When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.
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He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the memory, a wound that would ache whenever certain things combined - the taste of gin at mid-day, the smell of flowers under a balcony, the clang of corrugated iron, an ugly bird flopping from perch to perch.
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I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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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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The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
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He was like a child with haemophilia: every contact drew blood.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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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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Death was far more certain than God.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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