The Green Mile
1999
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- Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt. Graham Greene. Intelligent, Simple, Worst Enemy.
- 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.
- People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations. Graham Greene. People, Generalization, Meaningless.
- There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. Graham Greene. Love, Inspirational, Spiritual.
- “Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.” ― Graham Greene.
- “You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance.
- “The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other.
- “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.”
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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.
Barbara wrote that his brain frightened her. It was sharp and clear and cruel. She admired him for being always unsentimental, but noted 'always remember to rely on yourself … if you are in a stick...
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- “The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other.
- “It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.”
- “A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.” ― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair.
- “I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.” ― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair.
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