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Only Quotes by Graham Greene
- 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…
- 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…
- Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin…
- If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her.…
- From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next…
- Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of…
- One can't love humanity. One can only love people.
- We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love…
- Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.
- I'm only saying I want you to be happy. I hate your being unhappy. I don't mind anything you do that makes you happy." You…
- A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced
- It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum's swing,…
- Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.
- A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only…
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