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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

#been #being #human #human being #human relations

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

#being #boring #even #every #everything

If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#going #into #life #my life #something

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit. ↗

— Graham Greene

#cannot #material #movie #owe #respectful

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

#fiction #journalists #keep #more #more and more

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane. ↗

— Graham Greene

#connected #course #does #filling #fingers

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. ↗

— Graham Greene

#coastline #dangerous #failure #more #over

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

#almost #conventional #good #good man #himself

I have a God-given talent and I work very hard for what I do. Anybody can run fast. It's how you run fast. I pay attention to technical things now. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#attention #fast #god-given #god-given talent #hard

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. ↗

— Graham Greene

#child #dark #end #just #might