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Graham Greene quotes

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

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Graham Greene quote: "There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most..."
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "A picture postcard is a symptom of loneliness."
A picture postcard is a symptom of loneliness. Graham Greene
The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him. Graham Greene
When I began to write our story down, I thought I was writing a record of hate, but somehow the hate has got mislaid and all I know is that in spite of her mistakes and her unreliability, she was better than most. It's just as well that one of us should believe in her: she never did in herself. Graham Greene
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue. Graham Greene
It seemed after all that one never really missed a thing. To be a human being one had to drink the cup. If one were lucky on one day, or cowardly on another, it was presented on a third occasion. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "Even though my reason wanted the state of death, I was afraid..."
Even though my reason wanted the state of death, I was afraid like a virgin of the act. Graham Greene
They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. He had no more of a notion than any of you what the whole affair's about . . . Graham Greene
I had been afraid of the primitive, had wanted it broken gently, but here it came on us in a breath, as we stumbled up through the dung and the cramped and stinking huts to our lampless sleeping place among the rats. It was the worst one need fear, and it was bearable because it was inescapable. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist."
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist. Graham Greene
They haven't left us much to believe in, have they?--even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home or vaguer than a human being. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is..."
He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong. Graham Greene
It is the storyteller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval. Graham Greene
So one always starts a journey in a strange land -- taking too many precautions, until one tires of the exertion and abandons care in the worst spot of all. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness..."
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God. Graham Greene

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