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Graham Greene quotes

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

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A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit. Graham Greene
When we get to the end of human beings we have to delude ourselves into a belief in God, like a gourmet who demands more complex sauces with his food. Graham Greene
You try to draw everything into the net of your faith, father, but you can't steal all the virtues. Gentleness isn't Christian, self-sacrifice isn't Christian, charity isn't, remorse isn't. I expect the cavemen wept to see another's tears. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "Death was far more certain than God."
Death was far more certain than God. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of..."
One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time. Graham Greene
tea. He watched her while she made it, made it, of course, all wrong: the water not on the boil, the teapot unheated, too few leaves. She said, "I never quite understand why English people like teas so. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "I have never understood why people who can swallow the..."
I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks..."
Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night? Graham Greene
For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew. Graham Greene
There are dreams which belong only partly in the unconscious; these are the dreams we remember on waking so vividly that we deliberately continue them, and so fall asleep again and wake and sleep and the dream goes on without interruption, with a thread of logic the pure dream doesn't possess. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his..."
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance. Graham Greene
It's not really much good tearing out a page because you can see the place where it's been torn. [...] You can pull a stamp out,' she said with terrible youthful clarity, 'and you don't know that it's ever been there. Graham Greene
Be Disloyal. It's your duty to the human race. The human race needs to survive and it's the loyal man who dies first from anxiety or a bullet or overwork. If you have to earn a living...and the price they make you pay is loyalty, be a double agent--and never let either of the two sides know your real name. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "Pyle could see pain when it was in front of his eyes. (I don’t..."
Pyle could see pain when it was in front of his eyes. (I don’t write that as a sneer; there are so many of us who can’t) Graham Greene
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. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation. Graham Greene

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