The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.
Graham GreeneO God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever.
Graham GreeneSometimes I would walk with a sense of pain, sometimes with pleasure. If a woman is in one's thoughts all day, one should not have to dream of her at night.
Graham Greene...and yet could swear it was just then that I fell in love. It wasn't, of course, simply the onions -- it was the sudden sense of an individual woman, of a frankness that was so often later to make me happy and miserable.
Graham GreeneIt isn't. when you come to think of it a quite respectable trade, the detection of the innocent, for aren't lovers nearly always innocent? They have committed no crime, they are certain in their own minds that they have done no wrong, 'as long as no one but myself is hurt', the old tag is ready on their lips, and love, of course, excuses everything -- so they believe and so I used to believe in the days when I loved.
Graham GreeneHow strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.
Graham GreeneI wouldn't like to be cremated', she said.
'You'd prefer worms?'
'Yes, I would.
What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?
Graham GreeneTags: disappointment
The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.
Graham GreeneSometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.
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