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Graham Greene
Graham Greene
British Playwright
Born: Oct 2, 1904
Died: Apr 3, 1991
Kindness Life Man More World You
Related authors: Christopher Bond Howard Barker James M. Barrie Ken Hill Laura Wade Martin McDonagh Robert Bolt W. Somerset Maugham
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
Love Democracy Peace Brotherly Had Renaissance Terror Cuckoo Years Italy Clock Bloodshed Michelangelo Did Warfare Produce Produced Leonardo Leonardo Da Vinci Switzerland
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. Graham Greene
Writing Madness Fear Sometimes Situation Panic Those Compose Write How Wonder Escape Manage Human Form Which Inherent Paint Who Therapy
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. Graham Greene
Kindness Relationship Worth Relationships Thousand Lies Truths Human Human Relationships
Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing. Graham Greene
People Same Thing Proletariat About Nobody Talk Terms Governments Same Human Human Beings Should Mugs Beings Why Thing Thinks
If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask? Graham Greene
Faith You Mask Lose Abandon Abandoned Alternative Another Always Same
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. Graham Greene
World Lost Innocence Like His Dumb Wandering Meaning Leper Who Bell Harm
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
Great You People Listening Word Every Everything Boring See Writer Part Advantage Observing Longest Most Parties Spy Scrap Being Useful Even Great Advantage
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. Graham Greene
Sad Wisdom Age Sense Morality Withered Curiosity
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 World Good Man Monstrous Something Only He Almost Himself Conventional Regarded Ordinary Ordinary Man
The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him. Graham Greene
Character You Thought Alive Says About Something He Him Does Leave Moment
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! Graham Greene
Love Democracy Peace Hundred Hundred Years Brotherly Had Cuckoo Years Clock Five Did Produce Switzerland
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
Man Woman Own Changes Relation Once Gives He Like Importance Accepted Becomes His Effect Inferior Offers Often Little Noticed Paid Bribe Who Away
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness. Graham Greene
Happiness Human Being No-One Another Understand Arrange Human Being Really
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. Graham Greene
Success Failure Dangerous Ripples More Over Than Break Success Is Coastline Wider
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. Graham Greene
Truth Try Petty Distance More More And More Write Journalists Perhaps Trying Fiction Reason Novelists Keep Why
Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism. Graham Greene
Word Bad Journalism Come Just Mean Media
It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. Graham Greene
Life Trust Impossible Worst Oneself Through Without Go Imprisoned Cell
The world doesn't make any heroes anymore. Graham Greene
World Heroes Make Any Anymore
Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are. Graham Greene
Life You More Thrillers Like Than
People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery. Graham Greene
Needs Courage People Sometimes Walk Men Kind About Bearing Habitual Misery Towards Talk Execution Another Condemned Walking Person Any Place Much
He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong. Graham Greene
Loyalty Sense He Feel Felt Where Unhappiness Really Belong
We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to. Graham Greene
Life Death Us Resigned

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