The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.

Quote by Graham Greene

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Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning...

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning...

Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up...

Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up...

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation....

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation....

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it...

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it...

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

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

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

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one...

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one...

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in...

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in...

When we are not sure, we are alive.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The...

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The...

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about...

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about...

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard...

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard...

Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism

Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not...

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not...

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing...

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing...

Despair ruins some, presumption many

Despair ruins some, presumption many