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Graham Greene

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I have never planned anything illegal in my life,' Aunt Augusta said. 'How could I plan anything of the kind when I have never read any of the laws and have no idea what they are?


— Graham Greene


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There is an old legend that somewhere in the world every man has his double.


— Graham Greene


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Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.


— Graham Greene


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People who like quotations love meaningless generalisations.


— Graham Greene


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I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.


— Graham Greene


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The more unstable life is the less one likes the small details to alter.


— Graham Greene


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Me? You are laughing at me. Put your hand here. This has no theology.' I mocked myself while I made love. I flung myself into pleasure like a suicide on to a pavement.


— Graham Greene


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I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy.


— Graham Greene


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The more bare a life is, the more we fear change.


— Graham Greene


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One can't reason away regret-it's a bit like falling in love, falling into regret.


— Graham Greene


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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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