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“In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.”

Quote by Graham Greene

Book:May We Borrow Your Husband ?: And Other Comedies of Sexual Life

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May We Borrow Your Husband ?: And Other Comedies of Sexual Life

This book compiles a series of humorous narratives that delve into the complexities and ironies of human sexuality and interpersonal dynamics. more

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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. more

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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.”

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Book:Triple pursuit: a Graham Greene omnibus

Source: Triple pursuit: a Graham Greene omnibus

“Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.”

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Book:The Quiet American

Source: The Quiet American

“My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action -- even an opinion is a kind of action.”

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Source: The Quiet American

“A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.”

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Author:Graham Greene

“Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?”

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Book:The Portable Graham Greene

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“So much of a novelist's writing, as I have said, takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the first word appears on the paper. We remember details of our story, we do not invent them.”

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Book:The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“One never knows enough about characters in real life to put them into novels. One gets started and then, suddenly, one can not remember what toothpaste they use; what are their views on interior decoration, and one is stuck utterly. No, major characters emerge; minor ones may be photographed.”

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Book:Conversations with Graham Greene

Source: Conversations with Graham Greene

“Melodrama is one of my working tools and it enables me to obtain effects that would be unobtainable otherwise; on the other hand I am not deliberately melodramatic; don't get too annoyed if I say that I write in the way that I do because I am what I am.”

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Book:Conversations with Graham Greene

Source: Conversations with Graham Greene

“Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on.”

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Book:Another Mexico

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“Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.”

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Book:The Quiet American

Source: The Quiet American