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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

Graham Greene
Love, Depression, Fear
New York Times, January 8, 1981.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Graham Greene
Love, Inspirational, Spiritual
The Power and the Glory pt. 1, ch. 1 (1940)

When he was young, he had thought love had something to do with understanding, but with age he knew that no human being understood another. Love was the wish to understand, and presently with constant failure the wish died, and love died too perhaps or changed into this painful affection, loyalty, pity.

Graham Greene
Love, Loyalty, Understanding

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

Graham Greene
Love, Peace, Years
Graham Greene, Carol Reed (1969). “The third man: a film”, Lorrimer Publishing Ltd.

Have you seen a room from which faith has gone? Like a marriage from which love has gone. And patience, patience everywhere like a fog.

Graham Greene
Love, Faith, Fog
"The Potting Shed". Play by Graham Greene, 1957.

I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the possibility of love dying.

Graham Greene
Love, Believe, Dying
Graham Greene (1973). “The Collected Edition: The quiet American”

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 the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and Ave Maria like dearest is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves - it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.

Graham Greene
Love, Mean, Night
Graham Greene (2010). “A Burnt Out Case”, p.6, Random House

Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb; the six months of rain and the six months of sun was the period of their common gestation. They needed only a few words and a few gestures to convey their meaning. They had graduated through the same fevers, they were moved by the same love and contempt.

Graham Greene
Love, Rain, Men
Graham Greene (1973). “The Portable Graham Greene”

For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew.

Graham Greene
Love, Real, Hero
Graham Greene (1971). “Triple pursuit: a Graham Greene omnibus”, Viking Pr

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