They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.
"Henry Graham Greene", Order of Merit/OM, Order of the Companions of Honour/CH was an English people/English novelist and author regarded as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene had acquired a reputation early in his own lifetime as a great writer, both of serious Catholic novels and of thrillers (or "entertainments" as he termed them); however, even though shortlisted in 1967, he was never awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Through 67 years of writings which included over 25 novels, he explored the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world, often through a Catholic perspective.
Although Greene objected strongly to being described as a Roman Catholic novelist rather than as a novelist who happened to be Catholic, Catholic religious theme (literature)/themes are at the root of much of his writing, especially the four major Catholic novels: Brighton Rock (novel)/Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter and The End of the Affair; which are regarded as "the gold standard" of the Catholic novel. Several works such as The Confidential Agent, The Third Man, The Quiet American, Our Man in Havana and The Human Factor also show an avid interest in the workings of international politics and espionage.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous playwrights! More Graham Greene on Wikipedia.Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see -- every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.
When we are not sure, we are alive.
They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn't name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.
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