Graham Greene quotes - page 6

There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared. (Graham Greene)
Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast.The mind too,but it doesn't talk about love.
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A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.
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The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.
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Failure too is a form of death.
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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.
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The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.
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And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.
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Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.
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love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end.
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Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud. (Graham Greene)
She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the first stage of my own death, the memories dropping off like gangrened limbs.
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I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.
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I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.
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I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.
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I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.
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Suffering is not increased by numbers. One body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.
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He'll always be innocent, you can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
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Life was a series of complicated tactical exercises ...
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Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.
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He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death. (Graham Greene)
He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.
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We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us - Martins felt the little jab of dispensability.
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It was not the kind of surroundings in which any one with free will - if such a man existed - would have chosen to await death.
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Perhaps his laughter saved them - it must be difficult to shoot a laughing man: you have to feel important to kill.
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