Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Graham GreeneTag: life writing escape therapy
She was his like a table or a chair, but a table owned you, too - by your fingerprints.
Graham GreeneI have loved no part of the world like this and I have loved no women as I love you. You're my human Africa. I love your smell as I love these smells. I love your dark bush as I love the bush here, you change with the light as this place does, so that one all the time is loving something different and yet the same. I want to spill myself out into you as I want to die here.
Graham GreenePoint me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance.
Graham GreeneTag: happiness evil ignorance egotism
He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death.
Graham GreeneTag: life death unhappiness
Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
Graham GreenePeople talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
Graham GreeneYou cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
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With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You existed.
Graham GreeneTag: life
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.
Graham GreeneTag: life
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