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

— Graham Greene

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My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane. ↗

— 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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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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A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous. ↗

— Graham Greene

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A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority. ↗

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

— Graham Greene

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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

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