There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Graham GreeneTag: humor
Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.
Graham GreeneBut if I start believing that, then I have to believe in your God. I'd have to love your God. I'd rather love the men you slept with.
Graham GreeneI could have waited years, now that I knew the end of the story. I was cold and wet and very happy. I could even look with charity towards the altar and the figure dangling there. She loves us both, I thought, but if there is to be a conflict between an image and a man, I know who will win. I could put my hand on her thigh or my mouth on her breast; he was imprisoned behind the altar and couldn't move to plead his cause.
Graham GreeneI had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.
Graham GreeneTag: love infatuation
I recognized my work for what it was--as unimportant a drug as cigarettes to get one through the weeks and years. If we are extinguished by death, as I still try to believe, what point is there in leaving some books behind any more than bottles, clothes, or cheap jewellry?
Graham GreeneIf I'm a bitch and a fake, is there nobody who will love a bitch and a fake?
Graham GreeneIn the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise.
Graham GreeneI want men to admire me, but that's a trick you learn at school--a movement of the eyes, a tone of voice, a touch of the hand on the shoulder or the head. If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there's something to admire.
Graham GreeneTag: men
If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.
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