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Graham Greene Quotes

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

Biography

Author Profession: Playwright
Nationality: British
Born: October 2, 1904
Died: April 3, 1991

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Select Graham Greene Quotations

Failure too is a form of death.
Graham Greene

Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.
Graham Greene

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.
Graham Greene

When we are not sure, we are alive.
Graham Greene

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
Graham Greene

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

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
Graham Greene

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Advantage, Being, Boring, Even, Every, Everything, Great, Listening, Luncheon, Most, Observing, Part, Parties, Scrap, See, Spy, Useful, Word, Writer