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Graham Greene

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Sometimes it's easier to cut your coat to fit the cloth than lie on the bed you've made.


— Graham Greene


#life

Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.


— Graham Greene


#don-quixote #flying #travel #business

Married people grow like each other.


— Graham Greene


#marriage

Old age saves us from the realization of a great many fears.


— Graham Greene


#fears #old-age #worries #age

Ο θάνατος είναι πάντα από μόνος του μια απόδειξη ειλικρίνειας.


— Graham Greene


#philosophical #truth #death

Hatred is a failure of imagination.' Graham Greene, 'The Power and the Glory'.


— Graham Greene


#imagination

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.


— Graham Greene


#comes #curiosity #morality #sad #sense

Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.


— Graham Greene


#like #more #than #thrillers #you

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.


— Graham Greene


#dumb #harm #his #innocence #leper

Failure too is a form of death.


— Graham Greene


#failure #form #too






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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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