I had committed myself: without love I'd have to go through the gestures of love. Graham Greene More Quotes by Graham Greene More Quotes From Graham Greene Failure too is a form of death. Graham Greene failure form death In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise. Graham Greene lying hands promise One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time. Graham Greene willing talent I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil. Graham Greene enormous devil people With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You existed. Graham Greene ruins nests hate A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system. Graham Greene unity passion giving So much of a novelist's writing, as I have said, takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the first word appears on the paper. We remember details of our story, we do not invent them. Graham Greene lasts writing firsts Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share. Graham Greene sentimental communication relationship Melodrama is one of my working tools and it enables me to obtain effects that would be unobtainable otherwise; on the other hand I am not deliberately melodramatic; don't get too annoyed if I say that I write in the way that I do because I am what I am. Graham Greene annoyed writing hands Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on. Graham Greene favour violence race Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel. Graham Greene suffering numbers world Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism. Graham Greene journalism media mean The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're 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 party inspiration people Tea at college was served on long tables with an urn at the end of each. Long baguettes of bread, three to a table, were set out with meagre portions of butter and jam; the china was coarse to withstand the schoolboy-clutch and the tea strong. At the Hôtel de Paris I was astonished at the fragility of the cups, the silver teapot, the little triangular savoury sandwiches, the éclairs stuffed with cream. Graham Greene strong college food Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac. Graham Greene aphrodisiac powerful fame The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety. Graham Greene argument safety danger For a good man fame is always a problem. Graham Greene good-man problem men American bankers believe in the personal touch; the teller conveys a sense that he happens to be there accidentally and he is overjoyed at the lucky chance of the encounter. Graham Greene encounters believe bankers Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings. Graham Greene prayer class men No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain. Graham Greene furniture architecture safe
