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

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

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Peace
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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 is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Truth

What is earnest is not always true on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth. – Benjamin Disraeli

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The color of truth is gray. – Andre Gide

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It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding. – Bede Griffiths

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At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace. – John Lubbock

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Got snow drifts? Think of all the magical snowmen buried beneath, waiting for release. – Dr.SunWolf, 2015 tweet, professorsunwolf.com

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