Graham Greene Quotes

• 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.

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• No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another’s happiness.

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• 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.

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• Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

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• It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

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• 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.

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• In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

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• 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.

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• Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

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• He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness – the sense that is where we really belong.

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• God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed – that is the meaning of evolution.

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• Failure too is a form of death.

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• Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.

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• A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.

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• 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.

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• Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

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Graham Greene (79)

Birth:	2nd October, 1904
Death:	3rd April, 1991
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist

About

Henry Graham Greene was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England. He was an English novelist regarded as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. He studied history at Balliol College, Oxford. After graduating, he worked first as a private tutor and then as a journalist – first on the Nottingham Journal and then as a sub-editor on The Times. He was shortlisted, in 1967, for the Nobel Prize for Literature. He wrote several novels include: The Man Within, Stamboul Train, Brighton Rock, The Confidential Agent, The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter, The Quiet American, Our Man in Havana, A Burnt-Out Case, The Honorary Consul, The Human Factor, Doctor Fischer of Geneva, Monsignor Quixote, and  The Tenth Man.

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