"He had stylized himself--life was easier that way.……" — Graham Greene
"He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form."
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207 Quotes by Graham Greene
Graham Greene has 207 quotes on this site.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can…
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an…
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The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word,…
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive,…
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians…
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo…
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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all,…
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
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Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with…
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For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living…
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It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
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Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true…
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The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or…
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Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his…
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Because a person chooses to leave their home country and come to the United States does not necessarily mean they…
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Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses…
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To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science.…
— Humphry Davy
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Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse…
— Richard M. Nixon
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