Graham Greene

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit. ↗

— Graham Greene

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong. ↗

— Graham Greene

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If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask? ↗

— Graham Greene

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God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution. ↗

— Graham Greene

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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. ↗

— Graham Greene

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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast. ↗

— Graham Greene

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A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority. ↗

— Graham Greene

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When we are not sure, we are alive. ↗

— Graham Greene

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They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness. ↗

— Graham Greene

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Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. ↗

— Graham Greene

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