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My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action -- even an opinion is a kind of action.
Graham Greene
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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
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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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The problem of pretending to be alive.
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Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?
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I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety.
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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.
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People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
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Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever matched the deep excitement of the regular desire. Men always failed you when it came to the act. She might just as well have been to the pictures.
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All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.
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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.
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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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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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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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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
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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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Cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any Monoprix store - it's built into all poor-quality goods.
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At one with the One, it didn't mean a thing besides a glass of Guinness on a sunny day.
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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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For a good man fame is always a problem.
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