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He opened the book at random, or so he believed, but a book is like a sandy path which keeps the indent of footsteps. — Graham Greene

The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end? — Graham Greene

It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much. — Graham Greene

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

I wished I had been able to make her look that way, but it is the destiny of a lover to watch unhappiness hardening like a cast around his mistress. — Graham Greene

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong. — Graham Greene

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

What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom. — Graham Greene

The more bare a life is, the more we fear change. — Graham Greene

As long as nothing happens anything is possible ... — Graham Greene

Certainly, my exposure in high school to writers like Flannery O'Connor, Shusaku Endo, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Graham Greene was formative. — Phil Klay

If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it. — Graham Greene

Old age saves us from the realization of a great many fears. — Graham Greene

It's always the same wherever one goes- it's not the most powerful rulers who have the happiest populations — Graham Greene

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. — Graham Greene

There are small bits of useless knowledge which stick to one's brain like barnacles to a boat. — Graham Greene

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations — Graham Greene

Most things disappoint till you look deeper. — Graham Greene

Hate is a lack of imagination. — Graham Greene

A book is like a sandy path which keeps the indent of footprints. — Graham Greene

I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy. — Graham Greene

Doing nothing, badly. — Graham Greene

She thought for the first time, with happiness: perhaps I have a life in people's minds when I am not there to be seen or talked to. — Graham Greene

Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast.The mind too,but it doesn't talk about love. — Graham Greene

From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals. — Douglas Kennedy

They deserved nothing less than the truth
a vacant universe and a cooling world, the right to be happy in any way they chose. — Graham Greene

It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable. — Graham Greene

She was his like a table or a chair, but a table owned you, too - by your fingerprints. — Graham Greene

I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil. — Graham Greene

To all pimps and whores a merry syphilis and a happy gonorrhea. — Graham Greene

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

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt — Graham Greene

I thought to myself: 'Is the pain a little less than when I went away?' and tried to persuade myself that it was so. — Graham Greene

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. — Graham Greene

one gets so hopelessly tired of deception. — Graham Greene

With Graham Greene life is a precious, perpetual, snot-sodden whinge. — John Crowley

There are times, aren't there, when Shakespeare is a little dull. — Graham Greene

I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings. — Graham Greene

Failure too is a form of death. — Graham Greene

The best smell is bread, the best taste is salt," Graham Greene wrote, adding, "and the best love is that of children. — Anonymous

You are all alike, you people. You never learn the truth
that God knows nothing. — Graham Greene

Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy? — Graham Greene

Time gives poetry to a battlefield... — Graham Greene

I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend. — Graham Greene

I am interested in the blueness of the cheese. — Graham Greene

I measured love by the extent of my jealousy. — Graham Greene

I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing. — Graham Greene

In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise. — Graham Greene

So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay. — Graham Greene

But if I start believing that, then I have to believe in your God. I'd have to love your God. I'd rather love the men you slept with. — Graham Greene

The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her. — Graham Greene

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness. — Graham Greene

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution. — Graham Greene

When we are not sure, we are alive. — Graham Greene

You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God. — Graham Greene

I ought to write funny books. Life is really too horribly funny, but unless one's an outsider looking on, it's all such a bore. — Graham Greene

The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit. — Graham Greene

We forget very easily what gives us pain. — Graham Greene

For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success. — Graham Greene

If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly choose the Soviet Union. — Graham Greene

Never presume yours is a better morality. — Graham Greene

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

And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed. — Graham Greene

Feeling her against me, I was reminded of desire. Would that always be the case now - not desire, but only the reminder of it? — Graham Greene

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance. — Graham Greene

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work. — Graham Greene

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey. — Graham Greene

It is the storyteller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval. — Graham Greene

Trying to extricate from the long day the grain of pleasure — Graham Greene

Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him. — Graham Greene

It didn't matter anyway ... he wasn't made for peace, he couldn't believe in it. Heaven was a word: hell was something he could trust. — Graham Greene

Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates. — Graham Greene

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. — Graham Greene

If a woman is in one's thoughts all day, one should not have a dream of her at night. — Graham Greene

What happens if you drop all the things that make you I? — Graham Greene

He felt the sad relief of a man who realizes that there is one love at least that no longer hurts him. — Graham Greene

Was the secret of lasting youth known only to the criminal mind? — Graham Greene

Love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end. — Graham Greene

His lips felt dry with a literal thirst for righteousness, which was like a glass of ice-cold water on a table in another man's room. — Graham Greene

In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship. — Graham Greene

I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass. — Graham Greene

Graham Greene once said that life was lived in the first twenty years and the remainder was just reflection. So — Paul Kalanithi

It's a good world if you don't weaken. — Graham Greene

A man kept his character even when he was insane. — Graham Greene

Any man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God. — Graham Greene

You do not always say goodbye to those you love beside a deathbed, in an atmosphere of leisure and incense. — Graham Greene

I think, for the writer, rather as for the priest, there isn't such a thing as success. — Graham Greene

The pouches under his eyes were like purses that contained the smuggled memories of a disappointing life. — Graham Greene

Marlowe's devils wore squibs attached to their tails: evil was like Peter Pan - it carried with it the horrifying and horrible gift of eternal youth. — Graham Greene

You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other ... — Graham Greene

I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time. — Andrea Riseborough

What do we ever get nowadays from reading to equal the excitement and the revelation in those first fourteen years? — Graham Greene

Pyle could see pain when it was in front of his eyes. (I don't write that as a sneer; there are so many of us who can't) — Graham Greene

I would give my life, that's nothing, my soul ... my dear, my dear, try to understand that you are - so important. — Graham Greene

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong. — Graham Greene

In her view when a thing was done, it was done: remorse died with the act. — Graham Greene

God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good. — Graham Greene

Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness — Graham Greene

He had always despised people who thought about the past. To live was to leave behind; to be as free as a shipwrecked man who has lost everything. — Graham Greene

Destruction is a form of creation. — Graham Greene