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Graham Greene

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

-Graham Greene

age

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

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courage

Failure too is a form of death.

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death

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

-Graham Greene

death

Failure too is a form of death.

-Graham Greene

failure

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

-Graham Greene

failure

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?

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faith

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.

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fear

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

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freedom

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

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future

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

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happiness

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

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nature

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

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peace

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

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relationship

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

-Graham Greene

sad

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

-Graham Greene

success

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.

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technology

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

-Graham Greene

trust

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

truth

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

truth

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

truth

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.

-Graham Greene

war

Graham Greene

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

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

Failure too is a form of death.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Failure too is a form of death.

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

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?

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.

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

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.

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.

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.

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.

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

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