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
“There is an old legend that somewhere in the world every man has his double.” — 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
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
“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 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
He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was… — 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
“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
We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to. — 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
“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
“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
“The pouches under his eyes were like purses that contained the smuggled memories of a disappointing life.” — 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
“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
“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
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
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
