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Letter "G" » Graham Greene Quotes
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«He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.»
Author: Graham Greene
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unhappiness
«Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failur»
Author: Graham Greene
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Despair
| Keywords:
freezing, freezing point, practices, unforgivable
«A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.»
«A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.»
Author: Graham Greene
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distance, fiction, Journalists, more and more, Novelists, pettier, petty, the novelist, Truth by Reason
«You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?»
Author: Graham Greene
| About:
Difficulty
«Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.»
«Those who marry God can become domesticated too / it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word ''Love'' means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and ''Ave Maria '' like ''dearest'' is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves / it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.»
Author: Graham Greene
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Ave, Ave Maria, ceremony, common touch, dearest, domesticate, domesticated, drum, formal, hold dear, Marriages, marriage ceremony, opening ceremony, open letter, Saturday, stated, tastes, worshipped
«A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.»
Author: Graham Greene
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Character
«He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.»
«In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.»
Author: Graham Greene
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