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All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.

Graham Greene

Memories, Imagination, Novelists

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All good novelists have bad memories.

Graham Greene

Memories, Novelists, Bad Memories

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I had very good dentures once. Some magnificent gold work. It's the only form of jewelry a man can wear that women fully appreciate.

Graham Greene

Men, Dental Work, Appreciate

Graham Greene (1980). “Travels with my aunt”

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It is the earliest dream that I can remember, earlier than the witch at the corner of the nursery passage, this dream of something outside that has got to come in. The witch, like the masked dancers, has form, but this is simply power, a force exerted on a door, an influence that drifted after me upstairs and pressed against windows.

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Dream, Doors, Nurse

Graham Greene (1978). “Journey without maps”, Vintage

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Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?

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Country, Patriotism, World

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

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One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand.

Graham Greene

Pain, Book, Thinking

Graham Greene (1980). “Travels with my aunt”

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I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.

Graham Greene

Knows, Known

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

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You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.

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Love You, Years, Bridges

Graham Greene (1971). “The Power and the Glory”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like a pain of an amputated leg no longer there.

Graham Greene

Pain, Memories, Men

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

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God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.

Graham Greene

Innocent, Said

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

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He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the memory, a wound that would ache whenever certain things combined - the taste of gin at mid-day, the smell of flowers under a balcony, the clang of corrugated iron, an ugly bird flopping from perch to perch.

Graham Greene

Memories, Flower, Men

Graham Greene, Henry J. Donaghy (1992). “Conversations with Graham Greene”, p.71, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.

Graham Greene

Two, People, Together

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

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Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?

Graham Greene

Pain, Writing, Easy

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A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

Graham Greene

Laughing, Solitary, Superiority

1982 Monsignor Quixote, pt.1, ch.9.

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They are always saying God loves us. If thats love Id rather have a bit of kindness.

Graham Greene

Kindness, Literature, God Love

Graham Greene (1988). “The Captain and the Enemy”

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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

People, Lust, Sorrow

Graham Greene (1998). “The Tenth Man”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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I measured love by the extent of my jealousy.

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

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It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.

Graham Greene

Chocolate, Mind, Too Much

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

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A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced

Graham Greene

Brain, Capable

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I'm only saying I want you to be happy. I hate your being unhappy. I don't mind anything you do that makes you happy." You just want an excuse. If I sleep with anybody else, you feel you can do the same - any time." That's neither here nor there. I want you to be happy, that's all." You'd make my bed for me?" Perhaps.

Graham Greene

Hate, Sleep, Mind

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And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

Graham Greene

Sin

Graham Greene (1982). “The power and the glory”, Viking Pr

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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.

Graham Greene

Pain, Remembrance, Childhood

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

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With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You existed.

Graham Greene

Hate, Nests, Ruins

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

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He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.

Graham Greene

Soul, Narcissism, Satisfied

Graham Greene (1980). “Doctor Fischer of Geneva: Or, The Bomb Party”, Simon & Schuster

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She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.

Graham Greene

Sound, Noble, Desertion

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

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Born: October 2, 1904
Died: April 3, 1991
Occupation: Writer
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