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Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their appearance of nobility, of transcendent virtue, but detailed, passionate, trivial human knowledge.
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Graham Greene |
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Marlowe's devils wore squibs attached to their tails: evil was like Peter Pan--it carried with it the horrifying and horrible gift of eternal youth.
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Graham Greene |
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8c59ea7
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There wasn't any point in being angry with anyone - the offender was too obviously myself...
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Graham Greene |
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e84a24d
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We most of us hesitate to make so complete a statement - we remember and we foresee and we doubt. She had no doubts. The moment only mattered. Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space. What did time matter - all the past and the other men she may from time to time..
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Graham Greene |
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6c7b9e1
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She thought for the first time, with happiness: perhaps I have a life in people's minds when I am not there to be seen or talked to.
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Graham Greene |
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cf0f74c
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And how is Uncle Edward? or is he dead? I've reached the time of life when relatives die unnoticed.
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Graham Greene |
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e6973fc
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Oh, and there was pride, of course. It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted.
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Graham Greene |
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72b81a4
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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.
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books
love
doctor-fischer-of-geneva
graham-greene
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Graham Greene |
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My second wife - I was still young then - she left me, and I made the mistake of winning her back. It took me years to lose her again after that. She was a good woman. It is not easy to lose a good woman. If one must marry it is better to marry a bad woman.
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Graham Greene |
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f11d040
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But if I start believing that, then I have to believe in your God. I'd have to love your God. I'd rather love the men you slept with.
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Graham Greene |
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1319d15
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In her view when a thing was done, it was done: remorse died with the act.
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Graham Greene |
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0099a6e
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They deserved nothing less than the truth--a vacant universe and a cooling world, the right to be happy in any way they chose.
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Graham Greene |
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f7228f8
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He had been frightened and so he had been vehement.
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Graham Greene |
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99f503a
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Regret your own actions, if you like that kind of wallowing in self-pity, but never, never despise. Never presume yours is a better morality.
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Graham Greene |
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b189711
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All right. All right.' He thought: am I taking to drink too? It seemed to him that he had no shape left, nothing you could touch and say: this is Scobie.
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Graham Greene |
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b4b5b52
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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
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Graham Greene |
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aec6489
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We praise heroes as though they are rare, and yet we are always ready to blame another man for lack of heroism.
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the-last-word-and-other-stories
the-news-in-english
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Graham Greene |
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402db87
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The Mayor about the fable of the Prodigal Son: 'But he came home.' 'Yes, his courage failed him. He felt very alone on that pig farm. There was no branch of the Party to which he could look for help. had not yet been written, so he was unable to situate himself in the class struggle. Is it any wonder that he wavered for a time, poor boy?
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Graham Greene |
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ef758db
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When there was a choice between love of a woman and hate of a man, her mind could cherish only one emotion, for her love might be a subject for laughter, but no one ever had ever mocked her hatred.
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hatred
man
hate
women
love
lesbian
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Graham Greene |
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665aa1e
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He was filled with horror at the thought of what a child becomes, and what the dead must feel watching the change from innocence to guilt and powerless to stop it
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Graham Greene |
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2c1dfa3
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What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.
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Graham Greene |
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547c4ad
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I couldn't resist the temptation to tease Pyle - it is, after all, the weapon of weakness and I was weak.
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Graham Greene |
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5e84ade
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You are all alike, you people. You never learn the truth--that God knows nothing.
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Graham Greene |
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4cc5fa8
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Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time. How briefly and to the point people always seem to speak on the stage or on the screen, while in real life we stumble from phrase to phrase with endless repetition.
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Graham Greene |
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226ab3f
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I wondered whether she would consent to sleep with me that night if Pyle never came, but I knew that when I had smoked four pipes I would no longer want her.
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Graham Greene |
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bab3253
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That was the difference, he had always known, between his faith and theirs, the political leaders of the people who cared only for things like the state, the republic: this child was more important than a whole continent.
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Graham Greene |
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He had thought that home was something one possessed, but the things one had possessed were cursed with change; it was what one didn't possess that remained the same and welcomed him.
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Graham Greene |
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4e3c794
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Old age saves us from the realization of a great many fears.
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worries
fears
old-age
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Graham Greene |
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76ae068
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Married people grow like each other.
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Graham Greene |
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92bb23d
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I was afraid like a virgin of the act. I would have liked death to come with due warning, so that I could prepare myself. For what? I didn't know, nor how, except by taking a look around at the little I would be leaving.
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Graham Greene |
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It's not really much good tearing out a page because you can see the place where it's been torn. [...] You can pull a stamp out,' she said with terrible youthful clarity, 'and you don't know that it's ever been there.
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Graham Greene |
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I didn't know it buy You moved in the pain. I said, "let him be alive,' not believing in You, and my disbelief made no difference to You. You took it into Your love and accepted it like an offering, and tonight the rain soaked through my coat and my clothes into my skin, and I shivered with the cold, and it was for the first time as though I nearly loved You. I walked under Your windows in the rain and I wanted to wait under the all night o..
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Graham Greene |
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59e4046
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I'm just a bad writer who drinks too much and falls in love with girls
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Graham Greene |
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There I go again. I want. I don't want. If I could love You, I could love Henry. God was made man. He was Henry with his astigmatism, Richard with his spots, not only Maurice. If I could love a leper's sores, couldn't I love the boringness of Henry? But I'd turn from the leper if he were here, I suppose, as I shut myself away from Henry. I want the dramatic always. I imagine I'm ready for the pain of your nails... Dear God, I'm no use. I'm ..
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Graham Greene |
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024cc9c
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A picture postcard is a symptom of loneliness.
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Graham Greene |
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e95a3c0
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And yet he was happier in his unused room simply because it was his, his possession. I thought with bitterness and envy, if one possesses a thing securely, one need never use it.
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Graham Greene |
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One forgets the dead quite quickly; one doesn't wonder about the dead-what is he doing now, who is he with?
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Graham Greene |
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Oh, it's not done,' I said, 'but neither is adultery or theft or running away from the enemy's fire. The not done things are done every day, Henry. It's part of modern life. I've done most of them myself.
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Graham Greene |
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There's nothing discreditable about jealousy, Mr Bendrix. I always salute it as the mark of true love.
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Graham Greene |
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If I were writing a novel I would end it here: a novel, I used to think, has to end somewhere, but I'm beginning to believe my realism has been at fault all these years, for nothing in life now ever seems to end. Chemists tell you matter is never completely destroyed, and mathematicians tell you that if you halve each pace in crossing a room, you will never reach the opposite wall, so what an optimist I would be if I thought that this story..
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life
realism
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Graham Greene |
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I had been afraid of the primitive, had wanted it broken gently, but here it came on us in a breath, as we stumbled up through the dung and the cramped and stinking huts to our lampless sleeping place among the rats. It was the worst one need fear, and it was bearable because it was inescapable.
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travel
primitive
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Graham Greene |
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cc20c5a
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It was nearly lunch-time before Blackie had finished and went in search of T. Chaos had advanced. The kitchen was a shambles of broken glass and china, the dining-room was stripped of parquet, the skirting was up, the door had been taken off its hinges, and the destroyers had moved up a floor. Streaks of light came in through the closed shutters where they worked with the seriousness of creators - and destruction after all is a form of crea..
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vision
destruction
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Graham Greene |
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6cb330c
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I had come into this affair with my eyes open, knowing that one day this must end, and yet, when the sense of insecurity, the logical belief in the hopeless future descended like melancholia, I would badger her and badger her, as though I wanted to bring the future in now at the door, an unwanted and premature guest.
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Graham Greene |
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a074617
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disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible;
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hope
love
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Graham Greene |