We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“The more unstable life is the less one likes the small details to alter.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I like to have a secret love affair, a hidden life, something to lie about.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
They haven't left us much to believe in, have they?--even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home or vaguer… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“And how is Uncle Edward? or is he dead? I've reached the time of life when relatives die unnoticed.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“She thought for the first time, with happiness: perhaps I have a life in people's minds when I am not there to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's easier to cut your coat to fit the cloth than lie on the bed you've made.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“There is an old legend that somewhere in the world every man has his double.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Oh, it's not done,' I said, 'but neither is adultery or theft or running away from the enemy's fire. The not done… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
One never knows enough about characters in real life to put them into novels. One gets started and then, suddenly, one can… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Ordinary life goes on - that has saved many a man's reason. Just as in an air-raid it proved impossible to be… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“New landscapes, new customs. The accumulation of memories. A long life is not a question of years. A man without memories might… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“You are interested in a person, not in life, and people die or leave us ... But if you are interested in… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again for ever. I envied those… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Everyday life seems so permanent and unshakable‒but, as I was reminded by these writers, it can be destroyed by a single phone… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
At one with the One, it didn't mean a thing besides a glass of Guinness on a sunny day. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I ought to write funny books. Life is really too horribly funny, but unless one's an outsider looking on, it's all such… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“There is a time in life when a man with a little acting ability is able to deceive even himself.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“But it is impossible to go through life without trust; that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He wasn't a patient. I expect someone cured him. You cure a lot of people in this country, don't you, with bullets?” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“The pouches under his eyes were like purses that contained the smuggled memories of a disappointing life.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Be Disloyal. It's your duty to the human race. The human race needs to survive and it's the loyal man who dies… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.” — Graham Greene Copy Share
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a… — Graham Greene Copy Share
“Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their… — Graham Greene Copy Share
With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though… — Graham Greene Copy Share
“He had thought that home was something one possessed, but the things one had possessed were cursed with change; it was what one didn't… — Graham Greene Copy Share
Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved. — Graham Greene Copy Share
“He said, ‘Oh god, help her. Damn me, I deserve it, but let her live forever.’ This was the love he should have felt… — Graham Greene Copy Share
“A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the… — Graham Greene Copy Share
“I tossed up whether I'd see [the critic] or not: I knew too well the pompous phrases of his article, the buried significance he… — Graham Greene Copy Share
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. — Graham Greene Copy Share
“But we do not love people for what they do for us. Love happens to us; it isn't created.” — Graham Greene Copy Share
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