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
The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Who knows whether there may not be a moment in childhood when the world changes forever, like making a face when the… — 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
So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I write about situations that are common, universal might be more correct, in which my characters are involved and from which only… — 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
