Graham Greene: Citáty anglicky

Graham Greene byl anglický spisovatel, dramatik a literární kritik. Citáty anglicky.
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“He’ll always be innocent, you can’t blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Quiet American

Pt. III, ch. 2, pg 216
The Quiet American (1955)

“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment from which to look back or from which to look ahead.”

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Graham Greene kniha The End of the Affair

Bk. 1, ch. 1
Zdroj: The End of the Affair (1951)

“Suffering is not increased by numbers. One body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Quiet American

Zdroj: The Quiet American

“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in… We should be thankful we cannot see the horrors and degradations lying around our childhood, in cupboards and bookshelves, everywhere.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Power and the Glory

Zdroj: The Power and the Glory

“Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Quiet American

Pt. I, ch. 3, sect. 3
Zdroj: The Quiet American (1955)

“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human condition.”

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Graham Greene kniha Ways of Escape

New York Times (January 8, 1981)
Zdroj: Ways of Escape

“Hate is a lack of imagination.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Power and the Glory

Zdroj: The Power and the Glory

“I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.”

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Graham Greene kniha The End of the Affair

Zdroj: The End of the Affair

“Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?”

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Graham Greene kniha The End of the Affair

Zdroj: The End of the Affair

“Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Heart of the Matter

Zdroj: The Heart of the Matter

“We forget very easily what gives us pain.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Ministry of Fear

Zdroj: The Ministry of Fear

“So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Quiet American

Zdroj: The Quiet American

“One can't love humanity. One can only love people.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Ministry of Fear

Zdroj: The Ministry of Fear

“We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.”

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Graham Greene kniha The End of the Affair

Zdroj: The End of the Affair

“Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast. The mind too, but it doesn't talk about love.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Power and the Glory

Zdroj: The Power and the Glory

“But I'm a bad priest, you see. I know--from experience--how much beauty Satan carried down with him when he fell. Nobody ever said the fallen angels were the ugly ones. Oh, no, they were just as quick and light and…”

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Graham Greene kniha The Power and the Glory

Zdroj: The Power and the Glory

“I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.”

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Graham Greene kniha The End of the Affair

Zdroj: The End of the Affair