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• 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

  Believe, Parent, Strange

  Graham Greene (1974). "The end of the affair", Vintage

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• La verdad nunca ha tenido valor real para ningún ser humano: es un símbolo que persiguen matemáticos y filósofos. En las relaciones humanas, la bondad y la mentira valen más que mil verdades.

  Graham Greene

  Truth, Honesty, Kindness

  Graham Greene (1960). "The Heart of The Matter"

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• Mis dos dedos sobre una máquina de escribir nunca han conectado con mi cerebro. Mi mano sobre un bolígrafo sí. Una estilográfica, por supuesto. Los bolígrafos sólo sirven para rellenar formularios en un avión.

  Graham Greene

  Typewriters, Hands, Two

  International Herald Tribune, October 07, 1977.

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• El champán, si busca la verdad, es mejor que un detector de mentiras. Anima a un hombre a ser expansivo, incluso temerario, mientras que los detectores de mentiras son sólo un reto para decir mentiras con éxito.

  Graham Greene

  Truth, Lying, Drinking

  Graham Greene (1980). “Travels with my aunt”

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• La gran ventaja de ser escritor es que puedes espiar a la gente. Estás allí, escuchando cada palabra, pero una parte de ti está observando. Todo es útil para un escritor: cualquier chisme, incluso el más largo y aburrido de los almuerzos.

  Graham Greene

  Fiesta, Inspiración, Gente

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• I aim to be content with what I produce. It's an aim I never achieve, but I go over my work word by word, time and again, so as to be as little dissatisfied as possible.

  Graham Greene

  Writing, Littles, Achieve

  Graham Greene, Marie-Françoise Allain (1991). “Conversations with Graham Greene”

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• We forget very easily what gives us pain.

  Graham Greene

  Pain, Giving, Psychology

  "The Collected Edition: The ministry of fear".

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• I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.

  Graham Greene

  Home, Glasses, Chairs

  Graham Greene (1982). “The power and the glory”, Viking Pr

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• Never presume yours is a better morality.

  Graham Greene

  Moralidad

  Graham Greene (1996). “Travels with My Aunt”, p.39, Oberon Books

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• It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.

  Graham Greene

  Danger, Shocking

  Graham Greene (1971). "Triple pursuit: a Graham Greene omnibus", Viking Pr

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• Perhaps the sexual life is the great test. If we can survive it with charity to those we love and with affection to those we have betrayed, we needn't worry so much about the good and the bad in us. But jealousy, distrust, cruelty, revenge, recrimination ... then we fail. The wrong is in that failure even if we are the victims and not the executioners. Virtue is no excuse.

  Graham Greene

  Revenge, Worry, Tests

  GRAHAM GREENE (1966). “THE COMEDIANS”

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• So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

  Graham Greene

  Silence, Desert, Ears

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Collected Edition: The quiet American”

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• It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.

  Graham Greene

  Sociology, Strikes, Remarkable

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Collected Edition: The ministry of fear”

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• The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.

  Graham Greene

  Glasses, Hands, Guilt

  Graham Greene (1971). "Triple pursuit: a Graham Greene omnibus", Viking Pr

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• La realidad en nuestro siglo no es algo a lo que haya que enfrentarse.

  Graham Greene

  Reality, Literature, Century

  Graham Greene (1970). "The Collected Edition: Nuestro hombre en La Habana"

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• Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.

  Graham Greene

  Heart, Two, Cold

  Graham Greene (1948). “The Heart of the Matter”

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• Innocence is a kind of insanity

  Graham Greene

  Insanity, Innocence, Kind

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Collected Edition: The quiet American”

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• One forgets so quickly one's own youth.

  Graham Greene

  Youth, Forget

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Collected Edition: The quiet American”

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• 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

  Lying, Understanding, Tasks

  Graham Greene, Marie-Françoise Allain (1991). “Conversations with Graham Greene”

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• Death was far more certain than God.

  Graham Greene

  Cierto

  1955 The Quiet American, pt.1, ch.3.

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• Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.

  Graham Greene

  Time, Space, Strange

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• With a novel, which takes perhaps years to write, the author is not the same man he was at the end of the book as he was at the beginning. It is not only that his characters have developed-he has developed with them, and this nearly always gives a sense of roughness to the work: a novel can seldom have the sense of perfection which you find in Chekhov's story, The Lady with the Dog.

  Graham Greene

  Dog, Book, Writing

  Graham Greene (1973). “Collected Stories”

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• 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

  Life, Children, Husband

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• Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love--it's being unhappy together.

  Graham Greene

  Relationship, Discovery, Tears

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Collected Edition: The ministry of fear”

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• 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

  Wise, Being Wise, Young

  Graham Greene (1976). “The third man: Loser takes all”, Random House (UK)

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