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 Greene

Mots clés imagination hate hatred



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To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort.

Graham Greene


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There's no such thing as gratitude in politics.

Graham Greene


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All, 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.

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I'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.

Graham Greene


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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 Greene

Mots clés life



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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 Greene


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If ash-trays could speak, sir.' 'Indeed, yes.

Graham Greene


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All good novelists have bad memories.

Graham Greene


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happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness

Graham Greene


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