Writing Quote by Graham Greene

““...now when I'm writing it's already tomorrow and I'm afraid of getting to the end of yesterday. As long as I go on writing, yesterday is today and we are still together.””

Graham Greene

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“Time gives poetry to a battlefield...”

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“What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.”

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Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

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Hate is a lack of imagination.

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Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a…

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“Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their…

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With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though…

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Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

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“He had thought that home was something one possessed, but the things one had possessed were cursed with change; it was what one didn't…

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Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.

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“He said, ‘Oh god, help her. Damn me, I deserve it, but let her live forever.’ This was the love he should have felt…

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“A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the…

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