Graham Greene Quotes - Page 10

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• Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.

  Graham Greene

  Pride, Looks, Proud

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.

  Graham Greene

  Character, Instinct, Imaginative

  "Getting to Know the General: the Story of an Involvement". Book by Graham Greene, 1984.

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• In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise.

  Graham Greene

  Lying, Hands, Promise

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed - that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.

  Graham Greene

  Men, Comedian, Style

  GRAHAM GREENE (1966). “THE COMEDIANS”

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• ...and yet could swear it was just then that I fell in love. It wasn't, of course, simply the onions -- it was the sudden sense of an individual woman, of a frankness that was so often later to make me happy and miserable.

  Graham Greene

  Onions, Miserable, Individual

  Graham Greene (1951). “The End of the Affair”, London Heinemann [1951]

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• To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort.

  Graham Greene

  Lonely, Memories, Comfort

  Graham Greene (1951). “The End of the Affair”, London Heinemann [1951]

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• I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.

  Graham Greene

  Men, Trouble, Motive

  Graham Greene (1992). “The Quiet American”

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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.

  Graham Greene

  Travel, Mean, Gun

  Graham Greene (1982). “Another Mexico”, Viking Adult

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• The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

  Graham Greene

  Hero, Literature, World

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• Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.

  Graham Greene

  Thinking, Government, People

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• Failure too is a form of death.

  Graham Greene

  Death, Failure, Form

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• If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.

  Graham Greene

  Long, Curiosity, Ifs

  Graham Greene (1992). “The Quiet American”

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• Tea at college was served on long tables with an urn at the end of each. Long baguettes of bread, three to a table, were set out with meagre portions of butter and jam; the china was coarse to withstand the schoolboy-clutch and the tea strong. At the Hôtel de Paris I was astonished at the fragility of the cups, the silver teapot, the little triangular savoury sandwiches, the éclairs stuffed with cream.

  Graham Greene

  Strong, Food, College

  Graham Greene (1966). “The Comedians”

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• I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the possibility of love dying.

  Graham Greene

  Love, Believe, Dying

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Collected Edition: The quiet American”

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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.

  Graham Greene

  Writing, Lasts, Firsts

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die.

  Graham Greene

  Sometimes, Scene, Difficult

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Collected Edition: The ministry of fear”

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• And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.

  Graham Greene

  Lost Love, Writing, Men

  Graham Greene (1951). “The End of the Affair”, London Heinemann [1951]

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• A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

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  Men, Good Man, Ordinary

  "The Ministry of Fear". Book by Graham Greene. Book 1, Chapter 7, Section 1, 1943.

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• It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum's swing, at a point where it never rests, not in the dull perpendicular mean where it dangles in the end like a windless flag, but at an angle, nearer one extreme than another? If only a miracle could stop the pendulum at an angle of sixty degrees, one would believe the truth was there.

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  Lying, Believe, Mean

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• love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end.

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  Affair, Love Affair, Ends

  Graham Greene (1951). “The End of the Affair”, London Heinemann [1951]

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• Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that would prevent for ever the getting up, the putting on of clothes, the wathchign her torch trail across to the opposite side of the common like the tail-light of a low car driving away.

  Graham Greene

  Light, Opposites, Clothes

  "Books that make you cry: share your weepiest moments" by Moira Redmond, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2014.

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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?

  Graham Greene

  Country, Mean, Men

  Graham Greene, Christopher Hitchens (2007). “Our man in Havana”, Penguin Classics

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• Any man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God.

  Graham Greene

  Men, Doors, Brothels

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• He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.

  Graham Greene

  Way, Easier, Form

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• They think my mother's ashes are marijuana.

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  Mother, Marijuana, Thinking

  Graham Greene (1996). “Travels with My Aunt”, p.23, Oberon Books

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