A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. Graham Greene distancefictionjournalist Change image and share on social
Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing. Graham Greene beinggovernmenthuman Change image and share on social
Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share. Graham Greene callsentimentsentimentality Change image and share on social
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast. Graham Greene beautifulbreastclever Change image and share on social
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! Graham Greene brotherlyclockcuckoo Change image and share on social
The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn. Graham Greene carefuleconomyhousewife Change image and share on social
A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous. Graham Greene conventionalgoodman share on social
Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are. Graham Greene lifethriller Change image and share on social
The world doesn't make any heroes anymore. Graham Greene anymoreheromake Change image and share on social
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance. Graham Greene absoluteegotismevil Change image and share on social
