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Graham Greene quotes

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

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I couldn't help wondering, is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him? Except me, of course. I must have wanted him, in a way, once, but I've forgotten why, and I was too young to know what I was choosing. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "You are all alike, you people. You never learn the truth--that..."
You are all alike, you people. You never learn the truth--that God knows nothing. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill...."
Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair. Graham Greene
There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief. Graham Greene
You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.'Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns. Graham Greene
Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their appearance of nobility, of transcendent virtue, but detailed, passionate, trivial human knowledge. Graham Greene
It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum's swing, at a point where it never rests, not in the dull perpendicular mean where it dangles in the end like a windless flag, but at an angle, nearer one extreme than another? If only a miracle could stop the pendulum at an angle of sixty degrees, one would believe the truth was there. Graham Greene
When I tried to remember her voice saying, 'Don't worry,' I found I had no memory for sounds. I couldn't imitate her voice. I couldn't even caricature it: when I tried to remember it, it was anonymous - just any woman's voice. The process of forgetting her had set in. We should keep gramophone records as we keep photographs. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "Hatred is a failure of imagination.' Graham Greene, 'The Power..."
Hatred is a failure of imagination.' Graham Greene, 'The Power and the Glory'. Graham Greene
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. Graham Greene
I wondered whether she would consent to sleep with me that night if Pyle never came, but I knew that when I had smoked four pipes I would no longer want her. Graham Greene
Oh, she doesn't belong to anybody now,' he said, and suddenly I saw her for what she was - a piece of refuse waiting to be cleared away: if you needed a bit of hair you could take it, or trim her nails if nail trimmings had value to you. Like a saint's her bones could be divided up - if anybody required them. She was going to be burnt soon, so why shouldn't everybody have what he wanted first? What a fool I had been during three years to imagine that in any way I had possessed her. We are... Graham Greene
That was the difference, he had always known, between his faith and theirs, the political leaders of the people who cared only for things like the state, the republic: this child was more important than a whole continent. Graham Greene
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence..."
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time. Graham Greene

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