Graham Greene Quotes

• People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.

  Graham Greene

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• 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

  Topics in Life, Uncategorized

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• When we are not sure, we are alive.

  Graham Greene

• We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.

  Graham Greene

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• Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

  Graham Greene

• Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.

  Graham Greene

• They are always saying God loves us. If that’s love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.

  Graham Greene

• There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

  Graham Greene

• The world doesn’t make any heroes anymore.

  Graham Greene

• The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

  Graham Greene

• 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

• 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

• The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.

  Graham Greene

• Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

  Graham Greene

• Sentimentality – that’s what we call the sentiment we don’t share.

  Graham Greene

• Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.

  Graham Greene

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness

• 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

• 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

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

  Graham Greene

• 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.

  Graham Greene

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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