There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in...We should be thankful we cannot see… — 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
There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
One gets started, and then, suddenly, one cannot remember what toothpaste they use . . . the moment comes when a character… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there… — 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 by the laws of chance - so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of… — Graham Greene Copy Share
I want men to admire me, but that's a trick you learn at school--a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice,… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the… — 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
