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Graham Greene Quotes: "My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane."

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.



Graham Greene Quotes: "Hate is a lack of imagination."

Hate is a lack of imagination.




Graham Greene Quotes: "Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt"

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



Graham Greene Quotes: "Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm."

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.




Graham Greene Quotes: "Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm."

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.



Graham Greene Quotes: "A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead."

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.



Graham Greene Quotes: "A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible."

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.




Graham Greene Quotes: "Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown."

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.



Graham Greene Quotes: "People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations"

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations



Graham Greene Quotes: "In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths."

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.



Graham Greene Quotes: "Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates."

Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.



Graham Greene Quotes: "You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God."

You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.




Graham Greene Quotes: "It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love."

It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.



Graham Greene Quotes: "Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor."

Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.



Graham Greene Quotes: "In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!"

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!



Graham Greene Quotes: "Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline."

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.



Graham Greene Quotes: "The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths."

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.



Graham Greene Quotes: "In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship."

In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.



Graham Greene Quotes: "Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away."

Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.



Graham Greene Quotes: "He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance."

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.



Graham Greene Quotes: "Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully."

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.



Graham Greene Quotes: "Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector."

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.



Graham Greene Quotes: "...every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion."

...every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.



Graham Greene Quotes: "One can't love humanity. One can only love people."

One can't love humanity. One can only love people.



Graham Greene Quotes: "When we are not sure, we are alive."

When we are not sure, we are alive.



Graham Greene Quotes: "At one with the One, it didn't mean a thing besides a glass of Guinness on a sunny day."

At one with the One, it didn't mean a thing besides a glass of Guinness on a sunny day.



Graham Greene Quotes: "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 and journalists are trying to write fiction."

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 and journalists are trying to write fiction.



Graham Greene Quotes: "As long as nothing happens anything is possible."

As long as nothing happens anything is possible.



Graham Greene Quotes: "Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism."

Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.



Graham Greene Quotes: "I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different"

I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different



Graham Greene Quotes: "Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue."

Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.



Graham Greene Quotes: "Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered."

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.



Graham Greene Quotes: "Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance."

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.



Graham Greene Quotes: "Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money."

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



Graham Greene Quotes: "A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit."

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.



Graham Greene Quotes: "Human nature is not black and white but black and grey."

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.



Graham Greene Quotes: "So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear."

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.



Graham Greene Quotes: "Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud."

Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.



Graham Greene Quotes: "I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing."

I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.



Graham Greene Quotes: "Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something."

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.



Graham Greene Quotes: "Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time."

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.



Graham Greene Quotes: "There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost"

There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost



Graham Greene Quotes: "Innocence is a kind of insanity"

Innocence is a kind of insanity



Graham Greene Quotes: "Pity is cruel. Pity destroys."

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.



Graham Greene Quotes: "Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim."

Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.



Graham Greene Quotes: "If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?"

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?



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."

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: "Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?"

Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?



Graham Greene Quotes: "I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist."

I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.