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Graham Greene Quotes

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one’s days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done while one slept or shopped or talked with friends Picture Quote #1

They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered Picture Quote #1

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, at a point where it never rests, not in the dull perpendicular mean where it dangles in the end like a windless flag, but at an angle, nearer one extreme than another? If only a miracle could stop the pendulum at an angle of sixty degrees, one would believe the truth was there Picture Quote #1

They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like a pain of an amputated leg no longer there Picture Quote #1

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 if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous Picture Quote #1

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don’t, why should we? they talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It’s the same thing Picture Quote #1

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Have you seen a room from which faith has gone?... Like a marriage from which love has gone... And patience, patience everywhere like a fog Picture Quote #1

You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood? Picture Quote #1

I suppose the love of life which periodically deserts most men was returning: like sexual desire, it moves in cycles Picture Quote #1

People don’t like reality, they don’t like common sense, until age forces it on them Picture Quote #1

The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action Picture Quote #1

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment from which to look back or from which to look ahead Picture Quote #1

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To me comfort is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort Picture Quote #1

He’ll always be innocent, you can’t blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. all you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity Picture Quote #1

Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through inflicting it Picture Quote #1

I had very good dentures once. Some magnificent gold work. It’s the only form of jewelry a man can wear that women fully appreciate Picture Quote #1

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong Picture Quote #1

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and the simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt Picture Quote #1

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No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain Picture Quote #1

American bankers believe in the personal touch; the teller conveys a sense that he happens to be there accidentally and he is overjoyed at the lucky chance of the encounter Picture Quote #1

Who knows whether there may not be a moment in childhood when the world changes forever, like making a face when the clock strikes? Picture Quote #1

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money Picture Quote #1

Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It’s only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings Picture Quote #1

A writer doesn’t write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable Picture Quote #1

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I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone Picture Quote #1

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So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one’s days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done while one slept or shopped or talked with friends (Graham Greene Quotes) They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered (Graham Greene Quotes) 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, at a point where it never rests, not in the dull perpendicular mean where it dangles in the end like a windless flag, but at an angle, nearer one extreme than another? If only a miracle could stop the pendulum at an angle of sixty degrees, one would believe the truth was there (Graham Greene Quotes) They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like a pain of an amputated leg no longer there (Graham Greene Quotes) 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 if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous (Graham Greene Quotes) Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don’t, why should we? they talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It’s the same thing (Graham Greene Quotes) Have you seen a room from which faith has gone?... Like a marriage from which love has gone... And patience, patience everywhere like a fog (Graham Greene Quotes) You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood? (Graham Greene Quotes) I suppose the love of life which periodically deserts most men was returning: like sexual desire, it moves in cycles (Graham Greene Quotes) People don’t like reality, they don’t like common sense, until age forces it on them (Graham Greene Quotes) The hands of the guilty don’t necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action (Graham Greene Quotes) A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment from which to look back or from which to look ahead (Graham Greene Quotes) To me comfort is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort (Graham Greene Quotes) He’ll always be innocent, you can’t blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. all you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity (Graham Greene Quotes) Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through inflicting it (Graham Greene Quotes) I had very good dentures once. Some magnificent gold work. It’s the only form of jewelry a man can wear that women fully appreciate (Graham Greene Quotes) Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong (Graham Greene Quotes) Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and the simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt (Graham Greene Quotes) No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain (Graham Greene Quotes) American bankers believe in the personal touch; the teller conveys a sense that he happens to be there accidentally and he is overjoyed at the lucky chance of the encounter (Graham Greene Quotes) Who knows whether there may not be a moment in childhood when the world changes forever, like making a face when the clock strikes? (Graham Greene Quotes) Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money (Graham Greene Quotes) Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It’s only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings (Graham Greene Quotes) A writer doesn’t write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable (Graham Greene Quotes) I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone (Graham Greene Quotes)

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