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Years Quotes by Graham Greene
- In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
- Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be…
- 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…
- I could have waited years, now that I knew the end of the story. I was cold and wet and very happy. I could even…
- You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.
- When I replied that I loved her too in that way, I was the liar, not she, for I never lose the consciousness of time:…
- Oh, she doesn't belong to anybody now,' he said, and suddenly I saw her for what she was - a piece of refuse waiting to…
- It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t we have committed…
- There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.
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- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz