From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever. Graham Greene More Quotes by Graham Greene More Quotes From Graham Greene A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority. Graham Greene superioritysolitarylaughing Oh, I’m not a Berkeleian. I believe my back’s against this wall. I believe there’s a sten gun over there. Graham Greene wallgunbelieve God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good. Graham Greene innocentsaid It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval. Graham Greene tasksunderstandinglying For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success. Graham Greene artistsuccessthinking God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-water. We wouldn't recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us - God's love. Graham Greene hateheartrunning I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her. Graham Greene crowdedvacancy It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t we have committed our first major sin at seven, have ruined ourselves for love or hate at ten, have clutched at redemption on a fifteen-year-old deathbed? Graham Greene hatemenyears 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 literaturegivingmen It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck. Graham Greene our-lovebleedingeye So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work. Graham Greene unhappinessdisciplinelong People change,' she said 'Oh, no they don't. Look at me. I've never changed. It's like those sticks of rock: bite it all the way down, you'll still read Brighton. That's human nature. Graham Greene rockspeoplelooks Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud. Graham Greene proudpridelooks She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy. Graham Greene being-wisewiseyoung love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end. Graham Greene love-affairaffairends Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved. Graham Greene duckscookingart They think my mother's ashes are marijuana. Graham Greene marijuanamotherthinking I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain. I could almost taste metal and salt in the skin, and I thought, How good you are. You might have killed us with happiness, but You let us be with You in pain. Graham Greene kissingpainlove-you 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 movieactorsbook How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. It was for this world that Christ had died: the more evil you saw and heard about you, the greater the glory lay around the death; it was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or civilization--it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt. Graham Greene homebeautifulchildren
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