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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

#abandoned #alternative #always #another #faith

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! ↗

— Graham Greene

#clock #cuckoo #democracy #did #five

The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him. ↗

— Graham Greene

#alive #character #comes #does #hadn

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore. ↗

— Graham Greene

#anymore #heroes #make #world

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

— Graham Greene

#like #more #than #thrillers #you

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years. ↗

— Graham Greene

#child #dark #end #just #might

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to. ↗

— Graham Greene

#life #resigned #us

The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#between #branches #clauses #constitution #difference

Competition is good and has served us well. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#good #served #us #well

Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#allowing #any #based #been #being