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A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority. ↗

— Graham Greene

#often #solitary #superiority

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

#beautiful #clever #pitiless #successful #then

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

— Graham Greene

#feel #felt #loyalty #really #sense

I have a God-given talent and I work very hard for what I do. Anybody can run fast. It's how you run fast. I pay attention to technical things now. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#attention #fast #god-given #god-given talent #hard

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. ↗

— Graham Greene

#away #becomes #bribe #changes #effect

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