When you visualized a man or a 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 shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.
Graham GreeneStichwörter: imagination hate hatred
To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort.
Graham GreeneThere's no such thing as gratitude in politics.
Graham GreeneAll, Pyle? Wait until you're afraid of living ten years alone with no companion and a nursing home at the end of it. THen you'll start running in any direction, even away from that girl in the red dressing-gown, to find someone, anyone, who last until you are through.
Graham GreeneI'm only saying I want you to be happy. I hate your being unhappy. I don't mind anything you do that makes you happy."
You just want an excuse. If I sleep with anybody else, you feel you can do the same - any time."
That's neither here nor there. I want you to be happy, that's all."
You'd make my bed for me?"
Perhaps.
I ought to write funny books. Life is really too horribly funny, but unless one`s an outsider looking on, it`s all such a bore.
Graham GreeneStichwörter: life
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
Graham GreeneIf ash-trays could speak, sir.' 'Indeed, yes.
Graham GreeneAll good novelists have bad memories.
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happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness
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