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Graham Greene

Life dates: 1904 AD — 1991 AD

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1947 AD

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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02c. 1947 AD

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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03c. 1947 AD

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

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04c. 1947 AD

In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

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05c. 1947 AD

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

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06c. 1947 AD

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

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