97 ordspråk av Graham Greene

Graham Greene

Graham Greene

Graham Greene föddes den 2 oktober 1904 och dog den 3 april 1991 - brittisk författare.
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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

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.

Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.

En romanförfattares ekonomi är lite som en sparsam husmors, som inte vill slänga bort något som kanske kan tjäna sitt syfte.

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.

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.

So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.

When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity -- that was a quality God's image carried with it. When you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the thape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.

Failure too is a form of death...

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.

The End of the Affair,

Perhaps it is only in childhood that books have any deep influence on our lives.

Hackereren Pex Tufvesson skabte musikprogrammet Noisetracker. Don't be shy. Put your nose right up to the bunghole.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself

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.

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