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Letter "G" » Graham Greene Quotes
«Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear, which is inherent in a human condition»
«It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself»
«The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see -- every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.»
«When we are not sure, we are alive.»
«Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there is such a thing as truth, and justice is as measured and faultless as a clock. Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood /for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.»
Author: Graham Greene
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clock, complicated, contradictory, defeated, details, disappointing, faultless, formed, Grown up, heroes, in the long run, long run, No Hero, of our own, promised, rule book, satisfy, simplicities, swordsman, The Long Run, The Rules
«The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.»
Author: Graham Greene
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Relationships,
Truth
| Keywords:
Human Relations, philosophers, pursue, relations, symbol
«However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance -- so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.»
Author: Graham Greene
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Against All Odds, clamor, clamoring, courageous, excuses, Great A, headed, judged, odds, sense of hearing, totally, unscientific
«Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.»
«Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim»
«They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.»
Author: Graham Greene
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God
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