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
As long as nothing happens anything is possible...
As long as one suffers one lives.
So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.
If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.
That whisky priest, I wish we had never had him in the house.
Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are; it's what we've all made of the world.
When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity -- that was a quality God's image carried with it. When you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the thape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.
God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning of evolution.
He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.
They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.
Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.