Quote #11

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and the simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.

More from Graham Greene

  1. My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are on…
  2. A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth …
  3. Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
  4. The world is not black and white. More like black and grey.
  5. It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
  6. That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.
  7. Those who marry God can become domesticated too-it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word 'Love' means a formal touch of…
  8. A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.

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