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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. - 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
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
A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority. - Graham Greene Quotes
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 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. - Graham Greene Quotes
Failure too is a form of death. - Graham Greene Quotes
God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution. - Graham Greene Quotes
He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong. - Graham Greene Quotes
Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. - Graham Greene Quotes
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. - 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? - Graham Greene Quotes
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. - 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. - Graham Greene Quotes
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. - Graham Greene Quotes
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. - Graham Greene Quotes
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. - Graham Greene Quotes
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism. - Graham Greene Quotes
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. - 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. - Graham Greene Quotes
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange anothers happiness. - Graham Greene Quotes
Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments dont, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. Its the same thing. - Graham Greene Quotes
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 persons habitual misery. - Graham Greene Quotes
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance. - Graham Greene Quotes
Reality in our century is not something to be faced. - Graham Greene Quotes
Sentimentality - thats what we call the sentiment we dont share. - Graham Greene Quotes
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. - Graham Greene Quotes
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. - Graham Greene Quotes
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. Youre there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties. - Graham Greene Quotes
The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadnt thought about. At that moment hes alive and you leave it to him. - Graham Greene Quotes
Quotes Cloud
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Source Spirit That Truth Trying World Write
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