Graham Greene

Graham Greene

"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?"
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"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
"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
"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
"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
"No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness."
Graham Greene
"Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered."
Graham Greene
"We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to."
Graham Greene
"Human nature is not black and white but black and grey."
Graham Greene
"Failure too is a form of death."
Graham Greene
"Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline."
Graham Greene
"No human being can really understand another and no one can arrange another's happiness."
Graham Greene
"Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim."
Graham Greene
"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."
Graham Greene
"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
"Hatred seems to operate on the same glands as love it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?"
Graham Greene
"When we are not sure we are alive."
Graham Greene
"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, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."
Graham Greene
"Innocence must die young if it isn't to kill the souls of men"
Graham Greene
"one gets so hopelessly tired of deception."
Graham Greene
"The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity."
Graham Greene The End of the Affair
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