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Graham Greene Quotes

«So many of his prayers had remained unanswered that he had hopes that this one prayer of his had lodged all the time like wax in the Eternal ear.»
Author: Graham Greene | Keywords: lodged, unanswered, wax
«The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.»
Author: Graham Greene | About: Communication | Keywords: Leave It
«Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.»
Author: Graham Greene | About: Success | Keywords: coastline, ripples, wider
«To take an Annamite to bed with you is like taking a bird: they twitter and sing on your pillow»
«Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness»
Author: Graham Greene | About: Happiness | Keywords: changelessness
«If one is going to write about war, self respect demands that one»
Author: Graham Greene
«That whisky priest, I wish we had never had him in the house.»
Author: Graham Greene | Keywords: whiskies, whisky
«It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.»
«Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.»
Author: Graham Greene | Keywords: sentimentality
«Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.»
Author: Graham Greene | Keywords: millstone, pitiless

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