Quote #9

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

More from Graham Greene

  1. 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.
  2. 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…
  3. 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…
  4. Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and the simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
  5. 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…
  6. 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 …
  7. Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through in…
  8. The world is not black and white. More like black and grey.

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