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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.
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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
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Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.
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I get fed up with all this nonsense of ringing people up and lighting cigarettes and answering the doorbell that passes for action in so many modern plays.
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One never knows enough about characters in real life to put them into novels. One gets started and then, suddenly, one can not remember what toothpaste they use; what are their views on interior decoration, and one is stuck utterly. No, major characters emerge; minor ones may be photographed.
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No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.
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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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It's a pity people pick and choose what they learn from the Bible.
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A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable.
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Simplicity belonged by right to those who were native-born, those who could take the conditions of life, however bizarre, for granted.
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We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.
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You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other...
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He felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappiness—the sense that that is where we really belong.
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People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.
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God... created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed — that is the meaning of evolution.
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Sooner or later... one has to take sides – if one is to remain human.
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No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
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We mustn't complain too much of being comedians—it's an honourable 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.
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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.
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Thrillers are like life—more like life than you are … it's what we've all made of the 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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Graham Greene
Born:
October 2, 1904
Died:
April 3, 1991
(aged 86)
Bio:
Henry Graham Greene was an English novelist and author regarded by some as one of the great writers of the 20th century.
Known for:
The Quiet American (1955)
The Power and the Glory (1940)
The End of the Affair (1951)
The Heart of the Matter (1948)
Brighton Rock (1938)
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