Graham Greene Quotes - Page 6

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• For a good man fame is always a problem.

  Graham Greene

  Men, Good Man, Problem

  Graham Greene (1974). “The Collected Edition: A burnt-out case”

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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.

  Graham Greene

  Memories, Imagination, Novelists

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• All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.

  Graham Greene

  People, Lust, Sorrow

  Graham Greene (1998). “The Tenth Man”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.

  Graham Greene

  Innocent, Said

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

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• They are always saying God loves us. If thats love Id rather have a bit of kindness.

  Graham Greene

  Kindness, Literature, God Love

  Graham Greene (1988). “The Captain and the Enemy”

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• I write about situations that are common, universal might be more correct, in which my characters are involved and from which only faith can redeem them, though often the actual manner of the redemption is not immediately clear. They sin, but there is no limit to God's mercy and because this is important, there is a difference between not confessing in fact, and the complacent and the pious may not realize it.

  Graham Greene

  Character, Writing, Differences

  Graham Greene, Henry J. Donaghy (1992). “Conversations with Graham Greene”, p.38, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the memory, a wound that would ache whenever certain things combined - the taste of gin at mid-day, the smell of flowers under a balcony, the clang of corrugated iron, an ugly bird flopping from perch to perch.

  Graham Greene

  Memories, Flower, Men

  Graham Greene, Henry J. Donaghy (1992). “Conversations with Graham Greene”, p.71, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?

  Graham Greene

  Pain, Writing, Easy

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• But I'm a bad priest, you see. I know--from experience--how much beauty Satan carried down with him when he fell. Nobody ever said the fallen angels were the ugly ones. Oh, no, they were just as quick and light and . . .

  Graham Greene

  Angel, Light, Ugly

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

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• I'm only saying I want you to be happy. I hate your being unhappy. I don't mind anything you do that makes you happy." You just want an excuse. If I sleep with anybody else, you feel you can do the same - any time." That's neither here nor there. I want you to be happy, that's all." You'd make my bed for me?" Perhaps.

  Graham Greene

  Hate, Sleep, Mind

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• And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

  Graham Greene

  Sin

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

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• How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.

  Graham Greene

  Thinking, Differences, Making A Difference

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

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• I measured love by the extent of my jealousy.

  Graham Greene

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

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• Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through inflicting it.

  Graham Greene

  Pain, Remembrance, Childhood

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

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• With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You existed.

  Graham Greene

  Hate, Nests, Ruins

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

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• It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.

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  Chocolate, Mind, Too Much

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

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• He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.

  Graham Greene

  Soul, Narcissism, Satisfied

  Graham Greene (1980). “Doctor Fischer of Geneva: Or, The Bomb Party”, Simon & Schuster

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• She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.

  Graham Greene

  Sound, Noble, Desertion

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

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• However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance - so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.

  Graham Greene

  Suicide, Suicidal, Men

  "The Comedians". Book by Graham Greene. Part 1, Chapter 4, Section 1, 1966.

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• Have you seen a room from which faith has gone? Like a marriage from which love has gone. And patience, patience everywhere like a fog.

  Graham Greene

  Love, Faith, Fog

  "The Potting Shed". Play by Graham Greene, 1957.

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• A man kept his character even when he was insane.

  Graham Greene

  Character, Men, Insane

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

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• A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced

  Graham Greene

  Brain, Capable

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• Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got a self to express.

  Graham Greene

  Selfish, Expression, Ends

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

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• You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.

  Graham Greene

  Wine, Thinking, Blood

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

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• An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.

  Graham Greene

  Errors, May, Biographies

  1971 A Sort of Life, preface.

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