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Graham Greene

Graham Greene

Graham Greene föddes den 2 oktober 1904 och dog den 3 april 1991 - brittisk författare.
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Under dynastin Borgias tyranni genomled italienarna 30 års krig, mord, terror och blodsutgjutelse - men ur det framträdde Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci och renässansen. I Schweiz har man haft femhundra års demokrati, broderskärlek och fred. Och vad har det frambringat? Gökuret.

Det är ett erkänt faktum att berömmelse stimulerar potensen.

Den som kräver att alla ska spela med öppna kort sitter vanligen med alla trumf på hand.

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning of evolution.

At the end of what is called the "sexual life" the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

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

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.

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failur

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.

Those who marry God can become domesticated too / it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word ''Love'' means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and ''Ave Maria '' like ''dearest'' is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves / it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.

A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.

He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

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

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?

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