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About Graham Greene
English writer and journalist
Graham Greene was an English writer and journalist. He lived in the 20th century and is widely regarded as one of the leading novelists of that era. He wrote across journalism and fiction, but it is as a novelist that he is best known. His work helped define 20th-century English literature, and he remains closely associated with that tradition.
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- “No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.”Graham Greene
- “How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to inven…”Graham Greene
- “When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity – that was a quality God’s…”Graham Greene
- “There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped' growing more miserable with every glass one…”Graham Greene
Curiosity: more sayings
- “Develop a sincere curiosity and fascination towards people and life will become an adventure.”Mensah Oteh
- “The exact proportion and combination of the qualities within you, as they are, even while you search and stru…”Darrell Calkins
- “The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets peop…”Tina Yothers
Explore Morality
- “Mr. Miyazaki's specialty is taking a primal wish of kids, transporting them to a fantasyland, and then maroon…”Elvis Mitchell
- “There's always moral instruction whether the writer inserts it deliberately or not. The least effective moral…”Orson Scott Card
- “Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion and all…”Julian Huxley
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Books by Graham Greene
The Quiet American
1955
Brighton Rock
2000
The Power and the Glory
1991
The End of the Affair
1991
The heart of the matter
2013