Quote #17

You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?

More from Graham Greene

  1. The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.
  2. Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
  3. A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.
  4. Perhaps his laughter saved them - it must be difficult to shoot a laughing man: you have to feel important to kill.
  5. That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.
  6. Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps - violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going…
  7. The world is not black and white. More like black and grey.
  8. The old lady knelt, saying her 'Hail Mary'; She didn't believe - but among Catholics even the sceptical are courteous.

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