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Famous Graham Greene Quotes
“I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.”
“Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.”
“He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.”
“I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different”
“I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.”
“We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.”
“Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.”
“I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.”
“Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.”
“She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.”
“Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.”
“I had committed myself: without love I'd have to go through the gestures of love.”
“I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.”
“They think my mother's ashes are marijuana.”
“love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end.”
“We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.”
“Any man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God.”
“As long as one suffers one lives.”
“As long as nothing happens anything is possible.”
“Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.”
“Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.”
“You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other.”
“The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.”
“What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?”