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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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Henry Graham Greene
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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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The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?
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Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
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People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations
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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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It's a good world if you don't weaken.
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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 always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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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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Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
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The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety.
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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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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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One can't love humanity. One can only love people.
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I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.
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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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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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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
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