{"author":"Graham Greene","author_id":"Graham+Greene","total_quotes":199,"quotes":[{"text":"He had opened the book at random several times, seeking a sortes Virgilianae, before he chose the sentences on which his code was to be based. 'You say: I am not free. But I have lifted my hand and let it fall.' It was as if in choosing that passage, he were transmitting a signal of defiance to both the services. The last word of the message, when it was decoded by Boris or another, would read 'goodbye.","author":"Graham Greene","tags":["freedom"],"id":6633,"author_id":"Graham+Greene"},{"text":"A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the cheap lens. No one can deny the contours of the flesh, the shape of nose and mouth, and yet we protest, This isn't me.","author":"Graham Greene","tags":["psychology"],"id":7515,"author_id":"Graham+Greene"},{"text":"I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.'Rose didn't answer the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil. ","author":"Graham Greene","tags":["catholicism","humanism","religion"],"id":9492,"author_id":"Graham+Greene"},{"text":"That was my first instinct -- to protect him. It never occurred to me that there was a greater need to protect myself. 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.","author":"Graham Greene","tags":["innocence","protection"],"id":12415,"author_id":"Graham+Greene"},{"text":"A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced.","author":"Graham Greene","tags":["brain","capable","concieve","experience","human","mind","thoughtful"],"id":12465,"author_id":"Graham+Greene"},{"text":"Had a couple of drinks by myself. It was a mistake. Have I got to give up drinking, too? If I eliminate everything, how will I exist? I was somebody who loved Maurice and went with men and enjoyed my drinks. What happens if you drop all the things that make you I?","author":"Graham Greene","tags":["desire","drinking","love"],"id":14870,"author_id":"Graham+Greene"},{"text":"Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.","author":"Graham Greene","tags":["animals","despair","hope"],"id":18233,"author_id":"Graham+Greene"},{"text":"He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the memory, a wound that would ache whenever certain things combined - the taste of gin at mid-day, the smell of flowers under a balcony, the clang of corrugated iron, an ugly bird flopping from perch to perch.","author":"Graham Greene","tags":["combination","forgetting","memory","moment"],"id":23842,"author_id":"Graham+Greene"},{"text":"Suffering is not increased by numbers. One body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.","author":"Graham Greene","tags":["suffering"],"id":24735,"author_id":"Graham+Greene"},{"text":"It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted. Though God knows why we should feel it, when we look around and see who is wanted too.","author":"Graham Greene","tags":["cynicism","pride"],"id":37244,"author_id":"Graham+Greene"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":199,"pages":20,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}