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Graham Greene Quotes
«Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.»
«The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.»
«I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect -- it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.»
«So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.»
«When you visualized a man or 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 thape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.»
«Failure too is a form of death...»
«Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.»