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If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.

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
Cease
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Place
Live
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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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...every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb the six months of rain and the six months of sun was the period of their common gestation. They needed only a few words and a few gestures to convey their meaning. They had graduated through the same fevers, they were moved by the same love and contempt.
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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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Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.
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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
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It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
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You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.
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Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
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Suffering is not increased by numbers one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.
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Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well as a politick. Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.
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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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I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.
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I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
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