Quote by Graham Greene
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a d

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 and journalists are trying to write fiction. – Graham Greene

Other quotes by Graham Greene

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. – Graham Greene

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Innocence
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People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another persons habitual misery. – Graham Greene

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Courage
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Truth
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Humility is truth. – Desiderius Erasmus

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Truth

I dont want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job. – Samuel Goldwyn

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Truth

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. – David Hume

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Truth

Tell the children the truth. – Bob Marley

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Truth

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice. – Adam Garcia

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cool

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. Weve created life in our own image. – Stephen Hawking

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Computers

There are people who want to make mens lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life their Christianity, for instance. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Life