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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
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
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
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
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 trutha vacant universe and a cooling world, the right to be happy in any way they chose. — 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
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
one gets so hopelessly tired of deception.
— 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
Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?
— Graham Greene
Time gives poetry to a battlefield...
— 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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.
— Graham Greene
Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness
— Graham Greene
Destruction is a form of creation.
— Graham Greene