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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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.
I wrote at the start that this was a record of hate, and walking there beside Henry towards the evening glass of beer, I found the one prayer that seemed to serve the winter mood: O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone forever.
Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.
The next best thing to talking to her is talking about 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.
What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?
...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.
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.