No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness. Graham Greene More Quotes by Graham Greene More Quotes From Graham Greene It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die. Graham Greene difficultscenesometimes Failure too is a form of death. Graham Greene failureformdeath 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 lyinghandspromise 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 willingtalent I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil. Graham Greene enormousdevilpeople 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 ruinsnestshate A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system. Graham Greene unitypassiongiving 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 lastswritingfirsts Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share. Graham Greene sentimentalcommunicationrelationship 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 annoyedwritinghands 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 favourviolencerace Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel. Graham Greene sufferingnumbersworld Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism. Graham Greene journalismmediamean 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 partyinspirationpeople 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 strongcollegefood Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac. Graham Greene aphrodisiacpowerfulfame The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety. Graham Greene argumentsafetydanger For a good man fame is always a problem. Graham Greene good-manproblemmen 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 encountersbelievebankers 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 prayerclassmen
