Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space. Graham Greene More Quotes by Graham Greene More Quotes From Graham Greene A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable. Graham Greene precaution doe writing Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever matched the deep excitement of the regular desire. Men always failed you when it came to the act. She might just as well have been to the pictures. Graham Greene brain fun men 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 good-man ordinary men The world doesn't make any heroes anymore. Graham Greene literature hero world Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb; the six months of rain and the six months of sun was the period of their common gestation. They needed only a few words and a few gestures to convey their meaning. They had graduated through the same fevers, they were moved by the same love and contempt. Graham Greene rain love men For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew. Graham Greene real hero love Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men. Graham Greene jet-planes men travel Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation. Graham Greene practice heart men Cruel men cry easily at the cinema. Graham Greene sentimental cinema men Who knows whether there may not be a moment in childhood when the world changes forever, like making a face when the clock strikes? Graham Greene childhood forever children Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. Graham Greene word thought another freedom 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 switzerland democracy love peace No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness. Graham Greene human-being understand happiness
