Graham Greene
Graham Greene
Henry Graham Greene OM CH, better known by his pen name Graham Greene, was an English novelist and author regarded by some as one of the great writers of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of thrillers. He was shortlisted, in 1967, for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Through 67 years of writings, which included over 25 novels, he...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 October 1904
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Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.
It is the earliest dream that I can remember, earlier than the witch at the corner of the nursery passage, this dream of something outside that has got to come in. The witch, like the masked dancers, has form, but this is simply power, a force exerted on a door, an influence that drifted after me upstairs and pressed against windows.
Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.
No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.
If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly choose the Soviet Union.
Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.
A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced
I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.
...and yet could swear it was just then that I fell in love. It wasn't, of course, simply the onions -- it was the sudden sense of an individual woman, of a frankness that was so often later to make me happy and miserable.
...every monologue sooner or later becomes a discussion.
The border means more than a customs house, a passport officer, a man with a gun. Over there everything is going to be different; life is never going to be quite the same again after your passport has been stamped.
Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.
God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.