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All Quotes by author - Graham Greene

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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 solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority. "

" 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. "

" Failure too is a form of death. "

" God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution. "

" He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong. "

" Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. "

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

Black And White

" 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? "

" I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Reality in our century is not something to be faced. "

" Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share. "

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

" The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn. "

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