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Graham Greene quotes

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

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Graham Greene quote: "So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence..."
So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "God created a number of possibilities in case some of his..."
God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "Innocence is a kind of insanity"
Innocence is a kind of insanity Graham Greene
Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate. Graham Greene
All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens..."
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. Graham Greene
They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered. Graham Greene
That was my first instinct -- to protect him. It never occurred to me that there was a greater need to protect myself. Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. Graham Greene
All right. All right.' He thought: am I taking to drink too? It seemed to him that he had no shape left, nothing you could touch and say: this is Scobie. Graham Greene
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. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "I thought to myself: 'Is the pain a little less than when I..."
I thought to myself: 'Is the pain a little less than when I went away?' and tried to persuade myself that it was so. Graham Greene
My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action-even an opinion is a kind of action. Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be..."
What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment? Graham Greene
Graham Greene quote: "A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what..."
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible. Graham Greene
Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing. Graham Greene

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