Graham Greene
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“Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.” -Graham Greene
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“Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.” -Graham Greene
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“A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.” -Graham Greene
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“It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.” -Graham Greene
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“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.” -Graham Greene
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“Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.” -Graham Greene
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“Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.” -Graham Greene
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“In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.” -Graham Greene
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“In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!” -Graham Greene
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“Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.” -Graham Greene
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“No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another’s happiness.” -Graham Greene
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“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.” -Graham Greene
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“Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.” -Graham Greene
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“Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.” -Graham Greene
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“If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?” -Graham Greene
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“Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.” -Graham Greene
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“We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.” -Graham Greene
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“People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person’s habitual misery.” -Graham Greene
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. – Graham Greene
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