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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 10b52e7 | The golden girl | Federico García Lorca | ||
| d8f4b0f | I denounce everyone who ignores the other half, the half that can't be redeemed | Federico García Lorca | ||
| 7e4cde3 | When you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape. | Federico García Lorca | ||
| e9d20d5 | We didn't want to be reminded of how little we counted, how quickly, simply, and anonymously death came. Even though my reason wanted the state of death, 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. | death-and-dying | Graham Greene | |
| d5f49b5 | There is not so much virginity in the world that one can afford not to love it when on finds it. | Graham Greene | ||
| 641ef7d | I could have hated him for saying it: it was like a claim. If you really loved me, I thought, you'd behave like any other injured husband. You'd get angry and your anger would set me free. | Graham Greene | ||
| cf8f17e | The conditions of writing change absolutely between the first novel and the second: the first is an adventure, the second is a duty. The first is like a sprint which leaves you exhausted and triumphant beside the track. With the second the writer has been transformed into a long-distance runner - the finishing tape is out of sight, at the end of life. He must guard his energies and plan ahead. A long endurance is more exhausting than a spri.. | Graham Greene | ||
| 5ce3ca0 | The old women gossiped as they always had done, squatting on the floor outside the urinoir, carrying Fate in the lines of their faces as others on the palm. | Graham Greene | ||
| 51f84a8 | They killed him because he was too innocent to live. | Graham Greene | ||
| 27c927d | Perhaps we were looking strained in our manner, because I noticed we had attracted the attention of a little man who sat on a sofa not far off. I tried to outstare him and that was easy. He had a long moustache and fawn-like eyes and he looked hurriedly away: his elbow caught his glass of beer and spun it on to the floor, so that he was overcome with confusion. I was sorry then because it occurred to me that he might have recognized me from.. | the-end-of-the-affair | Graham Greene | |
| 87e352f | These are touchy times. National sensitivities are on permanent alert and it's getting harder by the moment to say boo to a goose, lest the goose in question belong to the paranoid majority (goosism under threat), the thin-skinned minority (victims of goosophobia), the militant fringe (Goose Sena), the separatists (Goosistan Liberation Front), the increasingly well organised cohorts of society's historical outcasts (the ungoosables, or Sche.. | Graham Greene | ||
| 83d9ca3 | eikha xekhasei edo kai polu kairo na dinomai kai n' aneko s' otidepote, se tetoio bathmo pou tha mporouse na pei kaneis pos eikha khasei kata kapoion tropo ten ikanoteta na endiapheromai. | Graham Greene | ||
| a0d860b | There was not much one could do; he decided at least to be good. | Graham Greene | ||
| 289bf3b | There is a time in life when a man with a little acting ability is able to deceive even himself. | Graham Greene | ||
| da04ccf | For if this God exists, I thought, and if even you - with your lusts and your adulteries and the timid lies you used to tell - can change like this, we could all be saints by leaping as you leapt, by shutting the eyes and leaping once and for all: if you are a saint, it's not so difficult to be a saint. It's something He can demand of any of us, leap. | god lies lust saints sin | Graham Greene | |
| de2cc12 | There is not so much virginity in the world that one can afford not to love it when one finds it. | Graham Greene | ||
| 7562945 | How twisted we humans are, and yet they say a God made us; but I find it hard to conceive of any God who is not as simple as a perfect equation, as clear as air. | Graham Greene | ||
| 9227525 | In silence they landed, and pushed through the blossom and scented herbage and undergrowth that led up to the level ground, till they stood on a little lawn of a marvellous green, set round with Nature's own orchard-trees--crab-apple, wild cherry, and sloe. | Kenneth Grahame | ||
| 61f8dea | Even though my reason wanted the state of death, 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. | preparation virgin | Graham Greene | |
| 2013742 | I laugh at anyone who spends so much time writing about what doesn't exist - mental concepts. | Graham Greene | ||
| bcae357 | What distant ancestors had given me this stupid conscience? Surely they were free of it when they raped and killed m their palaeolithic world. | Graham Greene | ||
| 8c62719 | Perhaps everything you say is true and these are the death throes of the human race, but even if that was true, I would not lose faith. There must be hope, and I must fight for my Emperor against Chaos and it's servants. That is insanity. Wrong, it's being human. | inspirational sci-fi | Ben Counter | |
| aab0c5d | I hated her because I wished to think she didn't love me: I wanted to get her out of my system. What grievance, I wonder now, had I got against her, whether she loved me or not? She had been loyal to me for nearly a year, she had given me a great deal of pleasure, she had put up with my moods, and what had I given her in return apart from the momentary pleasure? I had come into this affair with my eyes open, knowing that one day this must e.. | Graham Greene | ||
| 88008a4 | He wasn't a patient. I expect someone cured him. You cure a lot of people in this country, don't you, with bullets? | medicine méxico | Graham Greene | |
| c3fe30e | Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife a husband, a lover a mistress, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that's why men have invented God -- a being capable of understanding. Perhaps if I wanted to be understood or to understand I would bam-boozle myself into belief, but I am a reporter; God exists only for leader-writers. | relationships understanding | Graham Greene | |
| 133351c | Everything had seemed possibile. One could laugh at daydreams, but so long as you had the capacity to daydream, there was a chance that you might develop some of the qualities which you dreamed. It was like the religious discipline: words however emptily repeated can in time for a habit, a kind of unnoticed sediment at the bottom of the mind - until one day to you own surprise you find yourself acting on the belief you thought you didn't be.. | Graham Greene | ||
| b07e168 | He went upstairs and opened the telegram; it was addressed to a department in the British Consulate, and the figures which followed had an ugly look like the lottery tickets that remained unsold on the last day of a draw. There was 2674 and then a string of five-figure numerals: 42811 79145 72312 59200 80947 62533 10605 and so on. It was his first telegram and he noticed that it was addressed from London. He was not even certain (so long ag.. | decoding spy | Graham Greene | |
| ae4ddee | Isos e sexoualike epaphe na einai kai e kairia dokime. An katapheroume na zesoume khoris auten olo eusplakhnia gi' autous pou agapame ki olo sumpatheia gi' autous pou ekhoume prodosei, tote de khreiazetai n' anesukhoume gia to kalo kai to kako pou sunuparkhoun mesa mas. Omos an aphesoume kai mas kuriarkhesei e zeleia, e duspustia, e skleroteta, e ekdiketikoteta kai e antapodose, tote ekhoume apotukhei kai to lathos mas tha 'nai aute e idia .. | Graham Greene | ||
| 5b191fc | I have never met a simple man. Not even in the confessional, though I used to sit there for hours on end. Man was not created simple. When I was a young priest, I used to try to unravel what motives a man or woman had, what temptations and self-delusions. But I soon learned to give all that up, because there was never a straight answer. No one was simple enough for me to understand. In the end I would just say, 'Three Our Fathers, Three Hai.. | Graham Greene | ||
| d0f911f | As they pedalled us down the long suburban road to the Chinese town a line of French armoured cars went by, each with its jutting gun and silent officer motionless like a figurehead under the stars and the black, smooth, concave sky--trouble again probably with a private army, the Binh Xuyen, who ran the Grand Monde and the gambling halls of Cholon. This was a land of rebellious barons. It was like Europe in the Middle Ages. But what were t.. | europe old-world vietnam | Graham Greene | |
| 72b0a59 | Eimaste anoetoi otan agapame. Etrema ste skepse mepos te khaso. Pistepsa oti ten eida na allazei - den xero an ontos allaze, pantos mou etan adunaton pia na antexo ten abebaioteta. Etrexa pros to telos, san ton deilo pou trekhei pros ton ekhthro kai pairnei metallio. Ethela na xeperaso ton thanato. | Graham Greene | ||
| be23d18 | When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity - that was a quality God's image carried with it. When you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination. He | Graham Greene | ||
| c81b40a | I like to change my clothes as little as possible. I suppose some people would say the same of my ideas, the bank had taught me to be wary of whims. | Graham Greene | ||
| 21b7304 | From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. | Graham Greene | ||
| b5617f4 | Death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again for ever. 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 daily possibility of love dying. | Graham Greene | ||
| 211b5fc | Death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever. 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 daily possibility of love dying. The nightmare of a future of boredom and indifference would lift. I could .. | love war | Graham Greene | |
| c73963e | There are mystics who are said to have experienced God directly. He was a mystic,too,and what he had experienced was vacancy-a complete certainty in the existence of a dying, cooling world, of human beings who had evolved from animals for no purpose at all. He knew | Graham Greene | ||
| 90b300e | Segura) "...surely you realise there are people who expect to be tortured and others who would be outraged by the idea. One never tortures except by a kind of mutual agreement. ... Dr Hasselbacher does not belong to the torturable class." (Wormold) "Who does?" (Segura) "The poor in my own country, in any Latin American country. The poor of Central Europe and the Orient. Of course in your welfare states you have no poor, so you are untortura.. | Graham Greene | ||
| 28166cd | The Captain turned away from the mirror and said, 'Thank God, I'm not in danger of prison here. I'm only in danger of death. | Graham Greene | ||
| 8b4daf5 | So much of war is sitting around and doing nothing, waiting for somebody else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left it doesn't seem worth even starting a train of thought. | Graham Greene | ||
| a5852fd | In the strict sense I would not call him a writer at all." (...) Crabbin said, "He was just a popular entertainer." "Why the hell not?" Martins said fiercely. "Oh well, I merely meant..." "What was Shakespeare?" | Graham Greene | ||
| 25b7a62 | He had no accomplice except the credulity of other men. | Graham Greene | ||
| 68382c1 | Dear Mr Wormold, surely you realize there are people who expect to be tortured and others who would be outraged by the idea. One never tortures except by a kind of mutual agreement. | Graham Greene | ||
| 15fd743 | I was a correspondent: I thought in headlines. | Graham Greene |