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A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.
Graham Greene
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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
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Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
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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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Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.
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When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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I'm only saying I want you to be happy. I hate your being unhappy. I don't mind anything you do that makes you happy. You just want an excuse. If I sleep with anybody else, you feel you can do the same - any time. That's neither here nor there. I want you to be happy, that's all. You'd make my bed for me? Perhaps.
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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly choose the Soviet Union.
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For a good man fame is always a problem.
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Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.
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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
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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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