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Graham Greene Quotes

“There were occasions when Shakespeare was a very bad writer indeed. You can see how often in books of quotations. People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.”

Quotes William Shakespeare Graham Greene Travels With My Aunt Books Of Quotations

Book:Travels With My Aunt

Source: Travels With My Aunt

“I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy.”

Love Books Authors Graham Greene Doctor Fischer Of Geneva

Book:Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party

Source: Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party

“It was not merely that his brother was dead. His brain, too young to realize the full paradox, wondered with an obscure self- pity why it was that the pulse of his brother's fear went on and on, when Francis was now where he had always been told there was no more terror and no more--darkness.”

Books Graham Greene End Of The Party

Book:The End of the Party

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“As one grows old I think one becomes more attached to family things- to houses and graves.”

Family Aging Nostalgia Graham Greene Travels With My Aunt

Book:Travels With My Aunt

Source: Travels With My Aunt

“It would be better if I called you,’ she told me, and caution, I thought, caution, how well she knows how to conduct an affair like this, and I remembered again the stair that always - ‘always’ was the phrase she had used -squeaked.”

Cheating Infidelity Graham Greene The End Of The Affair

Book:The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“I have always liked fat men. They have given up all unnecessary effort, for they have had the sense to realize that women do not, as men do, fall in love with physical beauty. It's easier to feel at home with a fat man.”

Weight Falling In Love Attraction Fat Physical Beauty Graham Greene Fat Men Travels With My Aunt

Book:Travels With My Aunt

Source: Travels With My Aunt

“Age, Henry, may a little modify our emotions— it does not destroy them.”

Classic Classics Graham Greene Travels With My Aunt Vintage Classics

Book:Travels With My Aunt

Source: Travels With My Aunt