Graham Greene Quotes - Page 2

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• Most things disappoint till you look deeper.

  Graham Greene

  Looks, Disappoint, Deeper

  Graham Greene (1966). “The Comedians”

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• It's a good world if you don't weaken.

  Graham Greene

  World, Ifs

  Graham Greene (1970). “The Collected Edition: Brighton rock”

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• There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.

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  Sides, Victim, Jokes

  Graham Greene (1970). “The Collected Edition: Our man in Havana”

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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.

  Graham Greene

  Long, Priests, Cases

  Graham Greene (2000). “The Honorary Consul: A Novel”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

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  Love, Peace, Years

  Graham Greene, Carol Reed (1969). “The third man: a film”, Lorrimer Publishing Ltd.

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• As long as one suffers one lives.

  Graham Greene

  Long, Suffering

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

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  Silence, Desert, Ears

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Collected Edition: The quiet American”

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• One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.

  Graham Greene

  Talent, Willing

  Graham Greene, Henry J. Donaghy (1992). “Conversations with Graham Greene”, p.99, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Good Intentions, Intention

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• One can't love humanity. One can only love people.

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  People, Humanity, Sociology

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Collected Edition: The ministry of fear”

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• A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

  Graham Greene

  Fake People, Distance, Writing

  Graham Greene (1993). “Mornings in the dark: the Graham Greene film reader”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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• Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

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  Eternity, Absence, Said

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.

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  Mad, World, Mad World

  Graham Greene (1971). “Triple pursuit: a Graham Greene omnibus”, Viking Pr

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• Destruction after all is a form of creation.

  Graham Greene

  Chaos, Creation, Destruction

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Portable Graham Greene”

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• Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.

  Graham Greene

  Long

  Graham Greene (1960). “The Heart of The Matter”

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• You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other.

  Graham Greene

  Scared, Ends

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings.

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  Prayer, Men, Class

  Graham Greene (1982). “A Burnt-Out Case”, Viking Adult

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• Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.

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  Acceptance, Unforgivable Sin, Despair

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• We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

  Graham Greene

  Death, Near Death, Resigned

  Graham Greene (1951). “The heart of the matter”

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• Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

  Graham Greene

  Pity, Sociology

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Portable Graham Greene”

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• Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.

  Graham Greene

  Fear, Hate, Response

  Graham Greene (1982). “The Collected Edition: The human factor”

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• He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.

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  Happiness, Loyalty, Literature

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Portable Graham Greene”

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• It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.

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  Believe, Parent, Strange

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• 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.

  Graham Greene

  Glasses, Hands, Guilt

  Graham Greene (1971). “Triple pursuit: a Graham Greene omnibus”, Viking Pr

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• Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

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  Reality, Literature, Century

  Graham Greene (1970). “The Collected Edition: Our man in Havana”

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