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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
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Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
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They are always saying God loves us. If thats love Id rather have a bit of kindness.
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You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.
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Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got a self to express.
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We forget very easily what gives us pain.
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The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.
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The border means more than a customs house, a passport officer, a man with a gun. Over there everything is going to be different life is never going to be quite the same again after your passport has been stamped.
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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
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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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In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.
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If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?
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