Graham Greene Quotes - Page 2

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• When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human being understood another. Love was the wish to understand, and presently with constant failure the wish died, and love died too perhaps or changed into this painful affection, loyalty, pity.

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  Love, Loyalty, Understanding

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• So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

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  Silence, Desert, Ears

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

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• One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand. Even if we have the happy chance to fall in love, it is because we have been conditioned by what we have read, and if I had never known love at all, perhaps it was because my father's library had not contained the right books.

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  Falling In Love, Pain, Father

  Graham Greene (1980). “Travels with my aunt”

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• There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost

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  Virtue, Lost, Slowness

  "Monsignor Quixote". Book by Graham Greene, 1982.

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• He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Good Intentions, Intention

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• As long as nothing happens anything is possible.

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  Long, Happens, Anything Is Possible

  Graham Greene (1970). “The Collected Edition: Our man in Havana”

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• I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.

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  People, Devil, Enormous

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

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• Death was far more certain than God.

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  Certain

  1955 The Quiet American, pt.1, ch.3.

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• In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

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  Love, Peace, Years

  Graham Greene, Carol Reed (1969). “The third man: a film”, Lorrimer Publishing Ltd.

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• Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.

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  Long

  Graham Greene (1960). “The Heart of The Matter”

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• Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

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  Pity, Sociology

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Portable Graham Greene”

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• Destruction after all is a form of creation.

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  Chaos, Creation, Destruction

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Portable Graham Greene”

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• In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.

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  Mad, World, Mad World

  Graham Greene (1971). “Triple pursuit: a Graham Greene omnibus”, Viking Pr

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• A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

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  Fake People, Distance, Writing

  Graham Greene (1993). “Mornings in the dark: the Graham Greene film reader”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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• You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other.

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  Scared, Ends

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

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• Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

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  Pregnancy, Curiosity, Age

  Graham Greene (2011). “A Sort Of Life”, p.98, Random House

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• The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.

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  Believe, Trouble, Don't Believe

  "Graham Greene: An Intimate Portrait by His Closest Friend and Confidant". Book by Leopoldo Durán, p. 97, 1994.

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• It's a pity people pick and choose what they learn from the Bible.

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  Bible, People, Pity

  Graham Greene (1982). “A Burnt-Out Case”, Viking Adult

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• Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.

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  Fear, Hate, Response

  Graham Greene (1982). “The Collected Edition: The human factor”

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• One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.

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  Talent, Willing

  Graham Greene, Henry J. Donaghy (1992). “Conversations with Graham Greene”, p.99, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• As long as one suffers one lives.

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  Long, Suffering

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

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• Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

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  Truth, Lying, Drinking

  Graham Greene (1980). “Travels with my aunt”

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• There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.

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  Return

  GRAHAM GREENE (1966). “THE COMEDIANS”

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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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  Long, Priests, Cases

  Graham Greene (2000). “The Honorary Consul: A Novel”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• What happens if you drop all the things that make you I?

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  Happens, Ifs

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

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