Quotations are sometimes valuable pearls, but original thoughts can be priceless treasure.
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1904-1994. Full name Henry Graham Greene, English writer and critic.
1. "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."
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
5. "The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths."
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
9. "It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself."
source: "The Ministry of Fear"
Categories: Trust
10. "He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return."
Categories: Truth and Falsity
11. "God [...] created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution."
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
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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