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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear, which is inherent in a human condition - Graham Greene Quotes

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear, which is inherent in a human condition

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 Quotes

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.

Books And Reading British Journalist

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. - Graham Greene Quotes

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

British Journalist

They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness. - Graham Greene Quotes

They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.

British Journalist God

One of the things which danger does to you after a time is -, well, to kill emotion. I don't think I shall ever feel anything again except fear. None of us can hate anymore - or love. - Graham Greene Quotes

One of the things which danger does to you after a time is -, well, to kill emotion. I don't think I shall ever feel anything again except fear. None of us can hate anymore - or love.

His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse. - Graham Greene Quotes

His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse.

Jokes And Jokers

Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well as a politick. Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate. - Graham Greene Quotes

Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well as a politick. Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.

Catholicism Communism

His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse. - Graham Greene Quotes

His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse.

Jokes And Jokers

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery. - Graham Greene Quotes

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

British Journalist Courage

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. - Graham Greene Quotes

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

British Journalist Freedom

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance. - Graham Greene Quotes

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved. - Graham Greene Quotes

Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see -- every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties. - Graham Greene Quotes

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see -- every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness - Graham Greene Quotes

Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning of evolution. - Graham Greene Quotes

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning of evolution.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt - Graham Greene Quotes

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself - Graham Greene Quotes

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself

Life

When we are not sure, we are alive. - Graham Greene Quotes

When we are not sure, we are alive.

British Journalist Doubt

Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there is such a thing as truth, and justice is as measured and faultless as a clock. Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood /for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories. - Graham Greene Quotes

Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there is such a thing as truth, and justice is as measured and faultless as a clock. Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood /for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.

God

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim - Graham Greene Quotes

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane. - Graham Greene Quotes

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

British Journalist

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. - Graham Greene Quotes

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

British Journalist

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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.

Life

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness. - Graham Greene Quotes

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

British Journalist Happiness

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. - Graham Greene Quotes

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Age And Aging British Journalist

Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism - Graham Greene Quotes

Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism

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

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

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failur - Graham Greene Quotes

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failur

Sin

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 Quotes

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.

British Journalist Reason

You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood? - Graham Greene Quotes

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

Wine

Those who marry God can become domesticated too / it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word ''Love'' means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and ''Ave Maria '' like ''dearest'' is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves / it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night. - Graham Greene Quotes

Those who marry God can become domesticated too / it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word ''Love'' means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and ''Ave Maria '' like ''dearest'' is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves / it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.

God

A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious. - Graham Greene Quotes

A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return. - Graham Greene Quotes

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. - Graham Greene Quotes

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

British Journalist Kindness

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask? - Graham Greene Quotes

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

British Journalist Faith

Of course, before we know he is a saint, there will have to be miracles. - Graham Greene Quotes

Of course, before we know he is a saint, there will have to be miracles.

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years. - Graham Greene Quotes

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

British Journalist Unhappiness

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority. - Graham Greene Quotes

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

British Journalist Superiority

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous. - Graham Greene Quotes

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

British Journalist

Reality in our century is not something to be faced. - Graham Greene Quotes

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

British Journalist Reality

We mustn't complain too much of being comedians -- it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed -- that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men. - Graham Greene Quotes

We mustn't complain too much of being comedians -- it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed -- that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.

Comedy Profession

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 Quotes

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.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. - Graham Greene Quotes

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

British Journalist

So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay. - Graham Greene Quotes

So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.

Perhaps it is only in childhood that books have any deep influence on our lives. - Graham Greene Quotes

Perhaps it is only in childhood that books have any deep influence on our lives.

So many of his prayers had remained unanswered that he had hopes that this one prayer of his had lodged all the time like wax in the Eternal ear. - Graham Greene Quotes

So many of his prayers had remained unanswered that he had hopes that this one prayer of his had lodged all the time like wax in the Eternal ear.

The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him. - Graham Greene Quotes

The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.

British Journalist

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. - Graham Greene Quotes

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

British Journalist Failure inspirational Success

To take an Annamite to bed with you is like taking a bird: they twitter and sing on your pillow - Graham Greene Quotes

To take an Annamite to bed with you is like taking a bird: they twitter and sing on your pillow

Bed

If one is going to write about war, self respect demands that one - Graham Greene Quotes

If one is going to write about war, self respect demands that one

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