Graham Greene Short Quotes

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The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

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There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost

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One can't love humanity. One can only love people.

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Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

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Life was a series of complicated tactical exercises...

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[Re Hale] He only felt his loneliness after his third gin.

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The world is not black and white. More like black and grey.

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"People talk," Ida Arnold said. "People talk all the time."

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People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.

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

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

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"God save us always," I said, "from the innocent and the good."

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A book is like a sandy path which keeps the indent of footsteps.

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It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.

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There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.

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It's a pity people pick and choose what they learn from the Bible.

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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

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The beastly adverb—far more damaging to a writer than an adjective.

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There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.

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

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

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He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.

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Sooner or later... one has to take sides – if one is to remain human.

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I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.

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The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety.

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Isn't disloyalty as much the writer's virtue as loyalty is the soldier's.

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A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

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Why, after all, should we expect God to punish the innocent with more life?

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So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

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