“She had an immense store of trivial memories and when she wasn't living in the future she was living in the past.… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the… — 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
All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“... and then beginning to go back to what you can't even remember.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“For a moment I had felt elation as on the instant of waking before one remembers.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“When I tried to remember her voice saying, 'Don't worry,' I found I had no memory for sounds. I couldn't imitate her… — 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
