Graham Greene Quotes - Page 3

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• When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.

  Graham Greene

  Hate, Eye, Men

  Graham Greene (1971). “The Power and the Glory”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac.

  Graham Greene

  Powerful, Aphrodisiac, Fame

  Quoted in Radio Times, 10 Sept. 1964

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• Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.

  Graham Greene

  Acceptance, Unforgivable Sin, Despair

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• Innocence is a kind of insanity

  Graham Greene

  Insanity, Innocence, Kind

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

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• It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.

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  Believe, Parent, Strange

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

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• No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.

  Graham Greene

  Safe, Furniture, Architecture

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

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• This (Vietnam) was a land of rebellious barons. It was like Europe in the Middle Ages. But what were the Americans doing here? Columbus had not yet discovered their country.

  Graham Greene

  Country, Europe, Land

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• I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different

  Graham Greene

  Different, Term, My Time

  Graham Greene (1972). “Collected Stories”, Jonathan Cape

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• The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

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  Truth, Honesty, Kindness

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

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• I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.

  Graham Greene

  Home, Glasses, Chairs

  Graham Greene (1982). “The power and the glory”, Viking Pr

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• My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

  Graham Greene

  Typewriters, Hands, Two

  International Herald Tribune, October 07, 1977.

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• Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness.

  Graham Greene

  Happiness, Joy, Welcome

  Graham Greene (1971). “The heart of the matter”, Vintage

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• The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety.

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  Safety, Argument, Danger

  Graham Greene (1971). “The Collected Edition: The power and the glory”

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• Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

  Graham Greene

  Lust, May, Sin

  Graham Greene (1982). “The power and the glory”, Viking Pr

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• I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.

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  Hands, Taste, Tongue

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

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• Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.

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  Lying, Drinking, Wine

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

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• We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them.

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  Details, Stories, Remember

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

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• Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that’s why men have invented God – a being capable of understanding.

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  Life, Children, Husband

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• Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we have betrayed, we needn't worry so much about the good and the bad in us. But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination ... then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse.

  Graham Greene

  Revenge, Worry, Tests

  GRAHAM GREENE (1966). “THE COMEDIANS”

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• The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

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  Party, Inspiration, People

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• Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.

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  Beautiful, Clever, War

  Heart of the Matter (1948) bk. 1, pt. 1, ch. 2

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• The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.

  Graham Greene

  Glasses, Hands, Guilt

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

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• Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.

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  Time, Space, Strange

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• We forget very easily what gives us pain.

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  Pain, Giving, Psychology

  "The Collected Edition: The ministry of fear".

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• It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.

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  Sociology, Strikes, Remarkable

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

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