Graham Greene Quotes - Page 7

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• However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance - so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.

  Graham Greene

  Suicide, Suicidal, Men

  "The Comedians". Book by Graham Greene. Part 1, Chapter 4, Section 1, 1966.

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• Have you seen a room from which faith has gone? Like a marriage from which love has gone. And patience, patience everywhere like a fog.

  Graham Greene

  Love, Faith, Fog

  "The Potting Shed". Play by Graham Greene, 1957.

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• Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got a self to express.

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  Selfish, Expression, Ends

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

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• An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.

  Graham Greene

  Errors, May, Biographies

  1971 A Sort of Life, preface.

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• You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.

  Graham Greene

  Wine, Thinking, Blood

  "Monsignor Quixote". Book by Graham Greene, 1982.

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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.

  Graham Greene

  Insecurity, Twists, Poison

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• 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

  Heart, Men, Names

  'The Heart of the Matter' (1948) bk. 1, pt. 1, ch. 2

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• When I replied that I loved her too in that way, I was the liar, not she, for I never lose the consciousness of time: to me the present is never here: it is always last year or next week.

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  Liars, Next Week, Years

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

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• God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-water. We wouldn't recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us - God's love.

  Graham Greene

  Running, Hate, Heart

  "The Collected Edition: The power and the glory".

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• The problem of pretending to be alive.

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  Alive, Problem, Pretending

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

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• In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise.

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  Lying, Hands, Promise

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

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• I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain. I could almost taste metal and salt in the skin, and I thought, How good you are. You might have killed us with happiness, but You let us be with You in pain.

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  Pain, Love You, Kissing

  Graham Greene (2010). “The End Of The Affair”, p.98, Random House

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• Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.

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  Voice, Towers, Innocence

  Graham Greene (2010). “The Quiet American”, p.110, Random House

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• At one with the One, it didn't mean a thing besides a glass of Guinness on a sunny day.

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  Life, Mean, Glasses

  1938 Brighton Rock, pt.1, ch.1.

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• The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

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  Hero, Literature, World

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• The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.

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  Heart, Fruit, Decay

  Graham Greene (1971). “The Collected Edition: The power and the glory”

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• Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.

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  Break Up, Breakup, Wine

  GRAHAM GREENE (1966). “THE COMEDIANS”

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• I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.

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  Disease, Belief, Caught

  Graham Greene (1951). “The End of the Affair”, London Heinemann [1951]

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• A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.

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  Passion, Giving, Unity

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• A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.

  Graham Greene

  Movie, Book, Actors

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• You cannot love without intuition.

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  Intuition, Instinct

  Graham Greene (1992). “The Quiet American”

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• 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.

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  Saws, Titles, Action

  Graham Greene (1992). “The Quiet American”

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• Cruel men cry easily at the cinema.

  Graham Greene

  Men, Cinema, Sentimental

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• I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.

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  School, Two, Differences

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

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• Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.

  Graham Greene

  Lonely, Lying, Deserted

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

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