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Graham Greene Quotes

British - Playwright | October 2, 1904 - April 3, 1991

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Future Moment Childhood Door Always

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

Nature Black And White Black White

In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Love Peace Democracy Clock Years

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.

World Innocence Meaning Dumb Lost

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

Happiness Understand Human Being

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, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

Fear Writing Madness Situation Write

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Kindness Relationship Worth Human

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

Love Peace Democracy Clock Years

When we are not sure, we are alive.

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

Faith Mask You Lose Same Always

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.

Good Man Good Man World Something

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.

Great People Listening You Boring

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