Graham Greene - Thought Quotes

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Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?

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Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.

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I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.

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When I began to write our story down, I thought I was writing a record of hate, but somehow the hate has got mislaid and all I know is that in spite of her mistakes and her unreliability, she was better than most. It's just as well that one of us should believe in her: she never did in herself.

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The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being — it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue.

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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.

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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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Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

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When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human being understood another. Love was the wish to understand, and presently with constant failure the wish died, and love died too perhaps or changed into this painful affection, loyalty, pity…

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I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.

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Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love—it's being unhappy together.

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