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“There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost”

Graham Greene book Monsignor Quixote

Monsignor Quixote (1982)

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

Graham Greene

New York Times (October 9, 1985)

“Hate is a lack of imagination.”

Graham Greene book The Power and the Glory

Source: The Power and the Glory

“Life was a series of complicated tactical exercises …”

Graham Greene book Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock (1938)

“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.”

Graham Greene book Travels with My Aunt

Travels with My Aunt (1969)

“Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.”

Graham Greene book The Comedians

Source: The Comedians

“It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

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

Graham Greene book The Ministry of Fear

Bk. 1, ch. 3, sct. 2
Source: The Ministry of Fear (1943)

“Innocence is a kind of insanity”

Graham Greene book The Quiet American

Source: The Quiet American

“I measured love by the extent of my jealousy.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations”

Graham Greene

“You can’t conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone the … appalling … strangeness of the mercy of God.”

Graham Greene book Brighton Rock

Source: Brighton Rock (1938)

“Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.”

Graham Greene

“Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.”

Graham Greene book The Heart of the Matter

Source: The Heart of the Matter

“You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other…”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.”

Graham Greene book The Quiet American

Source: The Quiet American

“It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.”

Graham Greene book The Heart of the Matter

Source: The Heart of the Matter