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Graham Greene
1904-1994. Full name Henry Graham Greene, English writer and critic.
categories: Art and Culture -:- Normality and Madness
2. "We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to."
source: "The Heart of the Matter"
categories: Life and Death
3. "There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in."
categories: Youth and Age
4. "The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."
categories: Various
source: "The Heart of the Matter"
categories: Truth and Falsity
6. "Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline."
categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Success and Fame
7. "Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered."
source: "A Sort of Life"
categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Youth and Age
8. "Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism."
categories: Various
source: "The Ministry of Fear"
categories: Trust
10. "He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return."
categories: Truth and Falsity
categories: God and Religion -:- Various
12. "Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim."
source: "The Heart of the Matter"
categories: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Sorrow and Nostalgia
13. "Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector."
categories: Truth and Falsity
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