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That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.
Graham Greene
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Graham Greene
Age: 86 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 2
Died: 1991
Died: April 3
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Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Henry Graham Greene
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The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.
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He was like a child with haemophilia: every contact drew blood.
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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Cruel men cry easily at the cinema.
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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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Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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Never presume yours is a better morality.
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Death was far more certain than God.
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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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One can't love humanity. One can only love people.
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love had turned into love affair with a begining and an end.
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I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.
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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.
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All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered.
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Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb the six months of rain and the six months of sun was the period of their common gestation. They needed only a few words and a few gestures to convey their meaning. They had graduated through the same fevers, they were moved by the same love and contempt.
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What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?
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Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
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