Graham Greene - Feel Quotes

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[About Pinkie's inability to empathise] The imagination hadn't awoken. That was his strength. He couldn't see through other people's eyes, or feel with their nerves. Only the music made him uneasy.

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Perhaps his laughter saved them — it must be difficult to shoot a laughing man: you have to feel important to kill.

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In my experience, after a few months, an author usually feels that his novel is taking control. There has been the drive at increasing speed of the plane along the runway, then the slow lift and you feel the wheels no longer touch the ground.

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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.

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When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity— that was a quality God's image carried with it.

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When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity.... Hate was just a failure of imagination.

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What right had I to value her less than the bodies in the square? Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel. I had judged like a journalist, in terms of quantity, and I had betrayed my own principles; I had become as engage as Pyle, and it seemed to me that no decision would ever be simple again.

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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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Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.

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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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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.

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