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

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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
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Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
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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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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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I couldn't help wondering, is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him? Except me, of course. I must have wanted him, in a way, once, but I've forgotten why, and I was too young to know what I was choosing.
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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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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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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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There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.
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O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever.
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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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From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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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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Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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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 aim to be content with what I produce. It's an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.
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Cruel men cry easily at the cinema.
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