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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
- Graham Greene
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God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.
- Graham Greene
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#Meaning
#Possibilities
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
- Graham Greene
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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
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Failure too is a form of death.
- Graham Greene
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
- Graham Greene
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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
- Graham Greene
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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
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They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.
- Graham Greene
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
- Graham Greene
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We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
- Graham Greene
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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
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
- Graham Greene
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Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
- Graham Greene
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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
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
- Graham Greene
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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
- Graham Greene
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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
- Graham Greene
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
- Graham Greene
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In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
- Graham Greene
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Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
- Graham Greene
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In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
- Graham Greene
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#Relationship
#Worth
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
- Graham Greene
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