I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend. Graham Greene More Quotes by Graham Greene More Quotes From Graham Greene When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination. Graham Greene hate eye men 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 typewriters two hands Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. Graham Greene curiosity age pregnancy Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue. Graham Greene wish men believe It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love. Graham Greene strange parent believe As long as nothing happens anything is possible. Graham Greene anything-is-possible happens long You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God. Graham Greene cathedrals mercy-of-god mercy Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money. Graham Greene money war world As the end of the what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship. Graham Greene betrayal disappointment simple 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 dumb literature would-be You don't bless what you love...It's when you want to love and you can't manage it. You stretch out your hands and you say God forgive me that I can't love but bless this thing anyway...We have to bless what we hate...It would be better to love, but that's not always possible. Graham Greene forgive-me hate hands In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship. Graham Greene companionship simple desire There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in...We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere. Graham Greene childhood doors lying To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor - the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two. Graham Greene honor love-is two I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different Graham Greene my-time term different Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that’s why men have invented God – a being capable of understanding. Graham Greene husband life children I have loved no part of the world like this and I have loved no women as I love you. You're my human Africa. I love your smell as I love these smells. I love your dark bush as I love the bush here, you change with the light as this place does, so that one all the time is loving something different and yet the same. I want to spill myself out into you as I want to die here. Graham Greene light dark love-you Pity is cruel. Pity destroys. Graham Greene pity sociology 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 drinking lying Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something. Graham Greene return soul friendship
