The 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 GreeneTags: sociology
A man kept his character even when he was insane.
Graham GreeneTags: psychology
A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the cheap lens. No one can deny the contours of the flesh, the shape of nose and mouth, and yet we protest, This isn't me.
Graham GreeneTags: psychology
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
Graham GreeneTags: psychology
He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.
Graham GreeneTags: existentialism
He had in those days imagined himself capable of extraordinary heroisms and endurances which would make the girl he loved forget the awkward hands and the spotty chin of adolescence. Everything had seemed possible. One could laugh at daydreams, but so long as you had the capacity to daydream there was a chance that you might develop some of the qualities of which you dreamed. It was like the religious discipline: words however emptily repeated can in time form a habit, a kind of unnoticed sediment at the bottom of the mind, until one day to your own surprise you find yourself acting on the belief you thought you didn't believe in.
Graham GreeneTags: faith
There's nothing so heavy as books, sir--unless it's bricks.
Graham GreeneTags: books
He had been frightened and so he had been vehement.
Graham GreeneTags: psychology
It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.
Graham GreeneTags: sociology
Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their appearance of nobility, of transcendent virtue, but detailed, passionate, trivial human knowledge.
Graham GreeneTags: knowledge
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