Graham Greene Quotes

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• Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
• Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness,…
• Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
• The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is…
• There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
• Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors…
• The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In…
• In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
• It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
• Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
• Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
• When we are not sure, we are alive.
• Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
• My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens…
• Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on…
• Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
• Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
• Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
• A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth…
• A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to…

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