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Graham Greene quotes about life

British Playwright, Writer October 2, 1904 – April 3, 1991

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I have never planned anything illegal in my life,' Aunt Augusta said. 'How could I plan anything of the kind when I have never read any of the laws and have no idea what they are? Graham Greene
Don't you believe it. I'll tell you what life is. It's gaol, it's not knowing where to get some money. Worms and cataract, cancer. You hear 'em shrieking from the upper windows- children being born. It's dying slowly. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "Nothing in life was as ugly as death."
Nothing in life was as ugly as death. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't..."
We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to."
We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to. Graham Greene
You are interested in a person, not in life, and people die or leave us ... But if you are interested in life it never lets you down. I am interested in the blueness of cheese. You don't do crosswords, do you, Mr. Wormold? I do, and they are like people: one reaches an end. I can finish any crossword within an hour, but I have a discovery concerning the blueness of cheese that will never come to a conclusion. Graham Greene
Everyday life seems so permanent and unshakablebut, as I was reminded by these writers, it can be destroyed by a single phone call. Graham Greene
Oh, it's not done,' I said, 'but neither is adultery or theft or running away from the enemy's fire. The not done things are done every day, Henry. It's part of modern life. I've done most of them myself. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "I'm sick with life, I'm rotten with health."
I'm sick with life, I'm rotten with health. Graham Greene
Nothing in life now ever seems to end. Chemists tell you matter is never completely destroyed, and mathematicians tell you that if you halve each pace in crossing a room, you will never reach the opposite wall, so what an optimist I would be if I thought that this story ended here. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "The more unstable life is the less one likes the small details..."
The more unstable life is the less one likes the small details to alter. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make..."
It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason."
Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are."
Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are. Graham Greene

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