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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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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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So much of a novelist's writing, as I have said, takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the first word appears on the paper. We remember details of our story, we do not invent them.
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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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Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Graham Greene
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
Graham Greene
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.
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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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As the end of the what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
Graham Greene
All good novelists have bad memories.
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We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.
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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.
Graham Greene
They are always saying God loves us. If thats love Id rather have a bit of kindness.
Graham Greene
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
Graham Greene
