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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.
By Graham Greene
A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.
By Graham Greene
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
By Graham Greene
I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect -- it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
By Graham Greene
Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well as a politick. Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.
By Graham Greene
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.
By Graham Greene
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.
By Graham Greene
Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
By Graham Greene
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
By Graham Greene
It is impossible to go through life without trust That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
By Graham Greene
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
By Graham Greene
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
By Graham Greene
God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning of evolution.
By Graham Greene