Graham Greene quotes - page 2

You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood. (Graham Greene)
Sooner or later...one has to take sides. If one is to remain human. View quote
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It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval. View quote
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At the end of what is called the sexual life the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship. View quote
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A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead. View quote
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There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost. View quote
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God. View quote
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One can't love humanity. One can only love people. View quote
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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? View quote
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[Ida] "...It's a good world if you don't weaken." View quote
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The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief. (Graham Greene)
The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action. View quote
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt. View quote
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In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey. View quote
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Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong. View quote
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He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance. View quote
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As long as one suffers one lives. View quote
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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives. View quote
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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear. View quote
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Innocence is a kind of insanity. View quote
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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)
A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious. View quote
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Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through inflicting it. View quote
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Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair. View quote
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I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings. View quote
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