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
What happens if you drop all the things that make you I?
A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced
He was like a child with haemophilia: every contact drew blood.
Oh, she doesn't belong to anybody now,' he said, and suddenly I saw her for what she was - a piece of refuse waiting to be cleared away: if you needed a bit of hair you could take it, or trim her nails if nail trimmings had value to you. Like a saint's her bones could be divided up - if anybody required them. She was going to be burnt soon, so why shouldn't everybody have what he wanted first? What a fool I had been during three years to imagine that in any way I had possessed her. We are all possessed by nobody, not even by ourselves.
I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.
I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.
I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.
Death was far more certain than God.
You cannot love without intuition.
The problem of pretending to be alive.
When I replied that I loved her too in that way, I was the liar, not she, for I never lose the consciousness of time: to me the present is never here: it is always last year or next week.
It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.