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Graham Greene

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It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.


— Graham Greene


#death

He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.


— Graham Greene


#life

It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.


— Graham Greene


#change

Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.


— Graham Greene


#life

Death was far more certain than God.


— Graham Greene


#death

If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.


— Graham Greene


#romantic

I loved a man,"she said. "I told you - a man doesn't alter because you find out more about him. He's still the same man.


— Graham Greene


#love

Rooms don't change, ornaments stand where you place them: only the heart decays.


— Graham Greene


#change

Nothing in life was as ugly as death.


— Graham Greene


#life #death

I ought to write funny books. Life is really too horribly funny, but unless one`s an outsider looking on, it`s all such a bore.


— Graham Greene


#funny






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Writing style and themes
The literary style of Graham Greene was described by Evelyn Waugh in Commonweal as "not a specifically literary style at all. The next two books The Name of Action (1930) and Rumour at Nightfall (1932) were unsuccessful; and he later disowned them. He married Vivien in 1927; and they had two children Lucy Caroline (b.

Several works such as The Confidential Agent The Third Man The Quiet American Our Man in Havana and The Human Factor also show an avid interest in the workings of international politics and espionage. " Greene never received the Nobel Prize in Literature though he finiGraham Greened runner-up to Ivo Andrić in 1961. Greene suffered from bipolar disorder which had a profound effect on his writing and personal life.

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