What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?
Graham GreeneIt is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.
Graham GreeneA writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable.
Graham GreeneIt seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t we have committed our first major sin at seven, have ruined ourselves for love or hate at ten, have clutched at redemption on a fifteen-year-old deathbed?
Graham Greene