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Graham Greene was a renowned British writer born on October 2, 1904. His works are characterized by deep insight and unique narrative techniques, and he is hailed as one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century. Greene's writing spans a variety of themes, including spy novels, religious novels, and noir novels.

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“Oh, I’m not a Berkeleian. I believe my back’s against this wall. I believe there’s a sten gun over there.”

Believe I Believe Wall Gun

Book:The Collected Edition: The quiet American

Source: The Collected Edition: The quiet American

“American bankers believe in the personal touch; the teller conveys a sense that he happens to be there accidentally and he is overjoyed at the lucky chance of the encounter.”

Believe Happens Chance Lucky Encounters Bankers Banality Overjoyed Personal Touch

Book:The Collected Edition: Our man in Havana

Source: The Collected Edition: Our man in Havana

“The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.”

Believe Trouble Don't Believe Unbelief

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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.”

Knows Believe Parent Strange Strange Things

Book:The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“They haven't left us much to believe, have they? — even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home, or anything vaguer than a human being.”

Believe Humans I Can Home Left Human Beings Havens Bigger Disbelief

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“I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the possibility of love dying.”

Love Believe Would Be Age Certain Felt Dying Possibility Permanent Fables Envied

Book:The Collected Edition: The quiet American

Source: The Collected Edition: The quiet American

“If I stopped loving Him, I would cease to believe in His love. If I loved God, then I would believe in His love for me. It's not enough to need it. We have to love first, and I don't know how. But I need it, how I need it.”

Ifs Knows Needs Firsts Believe Enough Know How Cease His Love Loving Him

Book:The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“When I began to write our story down, I thought I was writing a record of hate, but somehow the hate has got mislaid and all I know is that in spite of her mistakes and her unreliability, she was better than most. It's just as well that one of us should believe in her: she never did in herself.”

Knows Should Writing Believe Wells Stories Hate Mistake Records Spite Unreliability

Book:The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum's swing, at a point where it never rests, not in the dull perpendicular mean where it dangles in the end like a windless flag, but at an angle, nearer one extreme than another? If only a miracle could stop the pendulum at an angle of sixty degrees, one would believe the truth was there.”

Ifs Mind Believe Humans Mean Doe Ends Lying Strange Degrees Miracle Extremes Dull Human Mind Flags Swings Sixty Angle Back And Forth Pendulums

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“I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.”

Believe Form Courses Mines Standards

Book:The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.”

Men Believe Sometimes Wish Virtue Comfort Saint Enormous Heroic

Book:The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

About the Author

Born: October 2, 1904
Died: April 3, 1991
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 405

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