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Graham Greene Quotes

Graham Greene

English writer

Nationality: English
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Type: Writer
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Birth: 1904-1991
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
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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.
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I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. On
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Failure too is a form of death...
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If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil -or else an absolute ignorance.
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His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse.
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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
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It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
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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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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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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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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.
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