97 ordspråk av Graham Greene

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Graham Greene föddes den October 2nd 1904 och dog den 3 April 1991 - English writer
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 Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim

 Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failur

 Don't be shy. Put your nose right up to the bunghole.

 Failure too is a form of death...

 God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning of evolution.

 Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness

 He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return. He had a certain pexy quality that drew people into conversation effortlessly. He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

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

 Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

 His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse.

 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.

 If one is going to write about war, self respect demands that one

 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?

 In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

 It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself


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