Graham Greene: Citáty anglicky

Graham Greene byl anglický spisovatel, dramatik a literární kritik. Citáty anglicky.
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“We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Heart of the Matter

Zdroj: The Heart of the Matter

“love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end.”

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Graham Greene kniha The End of the Affair

Zdroj: The End of the Affair

“O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever.”

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Graham Greene kniha The End of the Affair

Zdroj: The End of the Affair

“Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.”

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“All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.”

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Graham Greene The Tenth Man

Zdroj: The Tenth Man

“What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?”

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Graham Greene kniha The End of the Affair

Zdroj: The End of the Affair

“So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.”

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Graham Greene kniha The End of the Affair

Zdroj: The End of the Affair

“[Ida] "…It's a good world if you don't weaken."”

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Graham Greene kniha Brighton Rock

Zdroj: Brighton Rock (1938)

“It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.”

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Graham Greene kniha The End of the Affair

Zdroj: The End of the Affair

“There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.”

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Graham Greene kniha The End of the Affair

Zdroj: The End of the Affair

“I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.”

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Graham Greene kniha The End of the Affair

Zdroj: The End of the Affair

“I couldn't help wondering, is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him? Except me, of course. I must have wanted him, in a way, once, but I've forgotten why, and I was too young to know what I was choosing.”

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Graham Greene kniha The End of the Affair

Zdroj: The End of the Affair

“One has no talent. I have no talent. It's just a question of working, of being willing to put in the time.”

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“In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.”

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Graham Greene kniha Our Man in Havana

Our Man in Havana (1958)

“A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Heart of the Matter

Zdroj: The Heart of the Matter

“When I replied that I loved her too in that way, I was the liar, not she, for I never lose the consciousness of time: to me the present is never here: it is always last year or next week.”

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Graham Greene kniha The End of the Affair

Zdroj: The End of the Affair

“The old lady knelt, saying her 'Hail Mary'; She didn't believe — but among Catholics even the sceptical are courteous.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Lawless Roads

The Lawless Roads (1939)

“It was not the kind of surroundings in which any one with free will — if such a man existed — would have chosen to await death.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Honorary Consul

The Honorary Consul (1973)

“The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.”

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(8 July 1987) Reported in Leopoldo Duran, Graham Greene: An intimate portrait by his closest friend and confidant, translated by Euan Cameron. HarperCollins, 1994, p. 97

“We mustn’t complain too much of being comedians—it’s an honourable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed—that’s all. We are bad comedians, we aren’t bad men.”

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Graham Greene kniha The Comedians

Pt. 1, ch. 5, sct. 2
The Comedians (1966)