01c. 1947 ADThere are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.Graham Greene / quote ↗
03c. 1947 ADThat was my first instinct -- to protect him. It never occurred to me that there was a greater need to protect myself. 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.Graham Greene / quote ↗
06c. 1947 ADIntimacy with one person could do this-empty the world of friendships, give a distaste for women's kisses and their bright chatter, make the ordinary world a little unreal and very uninteresting.Graham Greene / quote ↗
07c. 1947 ADI'm not involved, not involved," I repeated. It has been an article of my creed. The human condition being what it was, let them fight, let them love, let them murder, I would not be involved. My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action – even an opinion is a kind of action.Graham Greene / quote ↗
10c. 1947 ADIt is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.Graham Greene / quote ↗
11c. 1947 ADThe old man in the beard he felt convinced was wrong. He was too busy saving his own soul. Wasn't it better to take part even in the crimes of people you loved, if it was necessary hate as they did, and if that were the end of everything suffer damnation with them rather than be saved alone?Graham Greene / quote ↗
13c. 1947 ADHatred seems to operate on the same glands as love it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?Graham Greene / quote ↗
14c. 1947 ADCommunists 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.Graham Greene / quote ↗
15c. 1947 ADAt 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.Graham Greene / quote ↗
16c. 1947 ADDespair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.Graham Greene / quote ↗
17c. 1947 ADNo human being can really understand another and no one can arrange another's happiness.Graham Greene / quote ↗
18c. 1947 ADSuccess is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.Graham Greene / quote ↗
21c. 1947 ADWe are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.Graham Greene / quote ↗
22c. 1947 ADMorality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.Graham Greene / quote ↗
23c. 1947 ADThe truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.Graham Greene / quote ↗
24c. 1947 ADChampagne, 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 / quote ↗
