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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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Henry Graham Greene
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She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the first stage of my own death, the memories dropping off like gangrened limbs.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac.
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A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.
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Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
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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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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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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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It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
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A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced
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I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
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Had Shakespeare listened to the news of Duncans death in a tavern or heard the knocking on his own bedroom door after he had finished the writing of Macbeth?
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Most things disappoint till you look deeper.
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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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I want men to admire me, but that's a trick you learn at school--a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice, a touch of the hand on the shoulder or the head. If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there's something to admire.
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Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.
Graham Greene
Death was far more certain than God.
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No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.
Graham Greene
You don't bless what you love...It's when you want to love and you can't manage it. You stretch out your hands and you say God forgive me that I can't love but bless this thing anyway...We have to bless what we hate...It would be better to love, but that's not always possible.
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