British - Playwright | October 2, 1904 - April 3, 1991
The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.
Graham Greene
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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.
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Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
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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.
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
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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.
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God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.
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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.
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
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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.
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