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. -Graham Greene

 

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.


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This quote is just one of 13 total Graham Greene quotes in our collection. Graham Greene is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.

They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.

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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.

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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. -Graham Greene
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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.

Graham Greene
231

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Graham Greene
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People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations. -Graham Greene
194

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.

Graham Greene
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