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Perhaps Quotes by Graham Greene
- 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…
- The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve…
- Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human…
- Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast.The mind too,but it doesn't talk about love.
- One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain…
- He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by…
- Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we…
- 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…
- When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human being understood another.…
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- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as… — Francis Bacon
- Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. — Pearl Bailey
- I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul,… — Ansel Adams
- Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. — Honore de Balzac
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. — Honore de Balzac
- I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps… — Roger Bannister
- Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in… — Jacques Barzun